The Noun Phrase in English: Past and present
Edited by Alex Ho-Cheong Leung and Wim van der Wurff
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 246] 2018. v, 229 pp.
Alex Ho-Cheong Leung
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alex Ho-Cheong Leung plays a role.
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Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
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2018. Chapter 6. Anaphoric reference in Early Modern English: The case of said and same. The Noun Phrase in English: Past and present, Ho-Cheong Leung, Alex and Wim van der Wurff (eds.), pp. 143–186
Work on the anaphoric NPs the said + N and the same has shown that both were frequent in sixteenth-century English but declined afterwards. We address the question why this happened. After reviewing earlier work on the two constructions, we present data showing that their properties and development… read more | Chapter
2018. Chapter 1. Introduction to the noun phrase in English: New clues to the past and the present. The Noun Phrase in English: Past and present, Ho-Cheong Leung, Alex and Wim van der Wurff (eds.), pp. 1–10
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