Argument Structure in Flux
The Development of Impersonal Constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with Special Reference to Verbs of Desire
(Sprache: Englisch)
Verbs of Desire underwent important changes in the course of their histories. In earlier English they could be used impersonally in constructions lacking a nominative subject. When impersonal uses are lost, they are gradually replaced by personal patterns,...
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Verbs of Desire underwent important changes in the course of their histories. In earlier English they could be used impersonally in constructions lacking a nominative subject. When impersonal uses are lost, they are gradually replaced by personal patterns, in particular a pattern where the verb governs a prepositional complement.
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The class of verbs of Desire comprises verbs whose syntax and semantics have undergone important changes in the course of their histories. Their argument structure involves a Desirer and a Desired, and in earlier English they could be used impersonally in constructions lacking a subject marked for the nominative case. The book presents three case studies based on a comprehensive survey of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary and the Middle English Dictionary and on corpus data retrieved from EEBOCorp 1.0 (1470s-1690s). The results obtained unveil the loss of impersonal uses and their gradual replacement by personal patterns, in particular a pattern where the verb governs a prepositional complement representing the Desired as a metaphorical goal.
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Introduction - The function and development of English impersonal constructions - The nature of verb meaning and constructional meaning - The class of verbs of Desire - Data and methodology - Lust - Thirst - Long
Autoren-Porträt von Noelia Castro-Chao
Noelia Castro-Chao holds a PhD in English linguistics from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Her research interests include historical syntax and semantics, corpus linguistics, and construction grammar.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Noelia Castro-Chao
- 2021, Neuausgabe, 300 Seiten, 51 Abbildungen, Maße: 15 x 22,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Maurizio Gotti
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 303434189X
- ISBN-13: 9783034341899
Sprache:
Englisch
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