The Old English Impersonalia
Author: Nils Johan Wahlén
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPosts
The Early English Impersonal Construction
Author: Ruth Möhlig-Falke
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2012-07-05
Total Pages: 565
ISBN-13: 0199777721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Early English Impersonal Construction aims to demonstrate that an understanding of the functional and semantic aspects of impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English can shed light on questions that remain about these verbs today. The impersonal construction has been a topic of extensive research for over a hundred years. But three quandaries-their seemingly unsystematic development, the gradual loss of impersonal uses, and the difficulty of aligning this with structural changes in early English-have made explanations for their development unsatisfactory. Möhlig-Falke offers a detailed analysis of impersonal verbs within the framework of cognitive and constructional grammar. She focuses on the loss of the impersonal construction as a consequence of a redefinition of the grammatical categories of subject and object, and describes the diachronic development of impersonal verbs as a result of the complex interaction of verbal and constructional meaning. Her research comprises all verbs which are recorded in impersonal use in Old and Middle English, and takes account of their full range of syntactic uses. It is thus the most comprehensive investigation of the impersonal construction in early English available to date.
Studies in Middle English Linguistics
Author: Jacek Fisiak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-06-24
Total Pages: 637
ISBN-13: 3110814196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Old English 'impersonal' Verbs and Expressions
Author: Michiko Ogura
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiddle English Verbs of Emotion and Impersonal Constructions
Author: Ayumi Miura
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0199947155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a careful use of dictionary materials and modern linguistic approaches, this book investigates why some Middle English verbs of emotion are attested in impersonal constructions while others are not, even though they look almost synonymous. A range of factors are identified that affected their behaviour.
Pragmatic Markers in English
Author: Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010-12-14
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 3110907585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
The Cambridge History of the English Language
Author: Richard M. Hogg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-07-31
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780521264747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge History of the English Language is the first multi-volume work to provide a full account of the history of English. Its authoritative coverage extends from areas of central linguistic interest and concern to more specialised topics such as personal and place names. The volumes dealing with earlier periods are chronologically based, whilst those dealing with more recent periods are geographically based, thus reflecting the spread of English over the last 300 years. Volume 1 deals with the history of English up to the Norman Conquest, and contains chapters on Indo-European and Germanic, phonology and morphology, syntax, semantics and vocabulary, dialectology, onomastics, and literary language. Each chapter, as well as giving a chronologically-oriented presentation of the data, surveys scholarship in the area and takes full account of the impact of developing and current linguistic theory on the interpretation of the data. The chapters have been written with both specialists and non-specialists in mind; they will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of English.
Language Change and Language Structure
Author: Toril Swan
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-04-20
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 311088657X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Historical Linguistics 1989
Author: Henk Aertsen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1993-08-13
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9027277052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the general sessions of ICHL 9. The 34 papers cover topics from the full range of contemporary historical linguistic scholarship. The papers address issues of language change in a large variety of languages and language families, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European: students of Germanic linguistics will likely find the volume to be of particular interest, as more than a dozen contributions deal with developments in Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German and Icelandic. The volume includes an index of names and languages.
English Association Bulletin
Author: English Association
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBibliographies of English language and literature, lists of new members of the association, and lists of publications of the association are included.
