The Early English Impersonal Construction
An Analysis of Verbal and Constructional Meaning
Series: Oxford Studies in the History of English;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 July 2012
- ISBN 9780199777723
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages576 pages
- Size 231x157x45 mm
- Weight 953 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 illustrations 0
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Short description:
The 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.
MoreLong description:
The 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.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. The Impersonal Construction in English
2. Functional Aspects of Old English Grammar
3. Aspects of Verb Meaning and Constructional Meaning: Theory and Methodology
4. Semantic Analysis of Old English Verbs Capable of Impersonal Use
5. Investigation of the Impersonal Syntactic Uses of Old English Verbs
6. A Comparison with Alternative Syntactic Constructions
7. The Diachronic Perspective: An Outlook to the Impersonal Construction in Middle and
8. Conclusion
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