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Constructions and Environments

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Constructions and Environments

By Peter Petre

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This monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive verb constructions in Old and Middle English. The mysterious loss of the high-frequency verb weorthan 'become' is explained as a casualty of changing word order in narrative during Middle English. The merger of is 'is' and bith 'shall be, is generally' into a single suppletive verb is related to the development of a general analytic future shall be. The co-occurrence of multiplechanges led to become and wax...Show more

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9780199373390

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2014

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1

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Constructions and Environments

Format

Hardcover

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