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 Objects have traditionally taken a back seat to subjects in most research into grammatical relations-and justifiably so, it could seem, in as much as subject is the primary grammatical relation outranking the relationally secondary objects in overall significance. Indeed one might have hoped that almost all that is to be known about objects would conveniently be obtained as a by-product of work, much intensified in recent years,on subjects, all objects being essentially nothing but non-subjects... |
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 Most papers presented in this volume are small contributions to some aspects of the relationship of the venerable old discipline of etymology and the dynamic young trends of present-day linguistics. |
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 New Directions in English Language Corpora: Methodology, Results, Software Developments
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Be/have + past participle: The choice of the auxiliary with intransitives from Late Middle to Modern English / Merja Kyto -- On the forms and functions of the verb be from Old to Modern English / Matti Kilpio -- Re-phrasing in Early English: The use of expository apposition with an explicit marker from 1350 to 1710 / Paivi Pahta and Saara Nevanlinna -- Genre conventions: Personal affect in fiction and non-fiction in Early Modern English / Irma Taavitsainen -- Towards reconstructing a grammar of point of view: Textual roles of adjectives and open-class adverbs in Early Modern English / Anneli Meurman-Solin. |
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Ch. 1. Introduction to verbal syntax -- Ch. 2. Conflicts between native verbs -- Ch. 3. Conflicts between native verbs and loan verbs -- Ch. 4. Verbs that became obsolete and archaic by the end of Middle English -- Ch. 5. Resulting syntactic changes in Old and Middle English -- Ch. 6. Conclusion -- Index of Old English verbs. |
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