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Beschreibung
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 (1470s1690s). 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.
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 (1470s1690s). 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.
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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 -
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Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Titelzusatz: The Development of Impersonal Constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with Special Reference to Verbs of Desire
Inhalt: 300 S.
ISBN-13: 9783034341899
ISBN-10: 303434189X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Castro-Chao, Noelia
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Hersteller: Peter Lang
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstr. 11, D-10178 Berlin, r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com
Maße: 225 x 150 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Noelia Castro-Chao
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.01.2021
Gewicht: 0,425 kg
Artikel-ID: 119595220