Brief History of English Syntax

Informationen zum Autor Olga Fischer is Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. She is co-author of The Syntax of Early English (Cambridge, 2000), with Wim van der Wurff, Ans van Kemenade and Willem Koopman. She is also the author of Morphosyntactic Change: Functional and Formal Perspectives (2007) and a contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language (Cambridge, 1992). Hendrik De Smet is a BOF (Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds) Research Professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of Spreading Patterns: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation (2012) and co-editor of On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change (2015). Wim van der Wurff is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is co-author of The Syntax of Early English (Cambridge, 2000), with Olga Fischer, Ans van Kemenade and Willem Koopman. He is also co-author of Colloquial Bengali (2009) with Mithun B. Nasrin. Klappentext An accessible, up-to-date account of the major changes in English syntax since its beginnings up to the present day. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive guide for students already introduced to the history of English and who want to understand the far-reaching structural changes that the grammar of English has undergone in its 1500-year history. The book will be an important resource for linguists with an interest in language change! as well as for literary scholars engaging with older texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Data and data handling; 3. Theoretical models and morpho-syntactic change; 4. The role of contact in syntactic change in English; 5. The noun phrase; 6. The verb phrase; 7. Clausal constituents; 8. Subordinate clauses; 9. Word order; 10. References; Index.

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• Authors: Hendrik De Smet, Hendrik (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven De Smet, De Smet Hendrik, Olga Fischer, Olga (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Fischer, Olga (Universiteit Van Amsterdam) De Smet Fischer, Olga Wurff Fischer, Fischer Olga, Wim van der Wurff, Wim (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) van der Wurff, Wim Van Der Wurff
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2017
• EAN: 9780521747974
• ISBN: 978-0-521-74797-4
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology