Explorations in English Historical Syntax
The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 198] 2018. viii, 312 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 23 July 2018
Published online on 23 July 2018
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Foreword | pp. vii–viii
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Introduction. Exploring English historical syntaxHubert Cuyckens | pp. 1–22
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Chapter 1. “Permissive” subjects and the decline of adverbial linking in the history of EnglishBettelou Los | pp. 23–50
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Chapter 2. Cognate noun constructions in Early Modern English: The case of Tyndale’s New TestamentNikolaos Lavidas | pp. 51–76
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Chapter 3. On the differential evolution of simple and complex object constructions in EnglishGünter Rohdenburg | pp. 77–104
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Chapter 4. Finite causative complements in Middle EnglishBrian Lowrey | pp. 105–138
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Chapter 5. Causative make and its infinitival complements in Early Modern EnglishYoko Iyeiri | pp. 139–158
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Chapter 6. Semantic and lexical shifts with the “into-causative” construction in American EnglishMark Davies and Jong-Bok Kim | pp. 159–178
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Chapter 7. Free adjuncts in Late Modern English: A corpus-based studyCarla Bouzada-Jabois | pp. 179–202
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Chapter 8. Complexity and genre distribution of left-dislocated strings after the fixation of SVO syntaxDavid Tizón-Couto | pp. 203–234
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Chapter 9. Why Scotsmen will drown and shall not be saved: The historical development of will and shall in Older ScotsChristine Elsweiler | pp. 235–258
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Chapter 10. A study of Old English dugan : Its potential for auxiliationKousuke Kaita | pp. 259–282
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Chapter 11. Sequentiality and the emergence of new constructions: That’s the bottom line is (that) in American EnglishReijirou Shibasaki | pp. 283–306
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Index | pp. 307–312
Cited by (3)
Cited by three other publications
Los, Bettelou & Patrick Honeybone
2022. Introduction. In English Historical Linguistics [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 358], ► pp. 2 ff.
Kostadinova, Viktorija, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Marco Wiemann, Gea Dreschler, Sune Gregersen, Beáta Gyuris, Kathryn Allan, Maggie Scott, Lieselotte Anderwald, Sven Leuckert, Tihana Kraš, Alessia Cogo, Tian Gan, Ida Parise, Shawnea Sum Pok Ting, Juliana Souza Da Silva, Beke Hansen & Ian Cushing
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2AB: Linguistics/English
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative