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Title Historical English syntax / edited by Dieter Kastovsky.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1991.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 510 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium monochrome
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Series Topics in English linguistics ; 2
Topics in English linguistics ; 2.
Note Proceedings of the Kellner-Festival, held in 1988 at Schloss Liechtenstein.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Contents ""Introduction""; ""Bibliography of Leon Kellner�s writings""; ""Should""; ""On the typological status of Old English""; ""What positions fit in?""; ""Language change typology and some aspects of the SVO development in English""; ""Pronoun and reference in Old English poetry""; ""The rise of the passive infinitive in English""; ""Question-answer sequences in Old English""; ""Between hypotaxis and parataxis. Clauses of reason in Ancrene Wisse""; ""Prepositional phrases expressing adverbs of time from Late Old English to Early Middle English""
""Can (could) vs. may (might): regional variation in Early Modern English?""""Locative valency of the English verb: a historical approach""; ""Motivated archaism: the use of affirmative periphrastic do in Early Modern English liturgical prose""; ""Spoken language and the history of do-periphrasis""; ""The be/have variation with intransitives in its crucial phases""; ""Semantic aspects of syntactic change""; ""Subordination and word order change in the history of English""; ""Adverbial shifts: Evidence from Norwegian and English""
""Lexical diffusion in syntactic change: frequency as a determinant of linguistic conservatism in the development of negation in English""""On the stylistic basis of syntactic change""; ""Index of technical terms and topics""; ""Index of names""
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Subject English language -- Syntax -- Congresses.
English language -- Syntax.
English language -- Grammar, Historical -- Congresses.
English language -- Grammar, Historical.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Kastovsky, Dieter, 1940-
Kellner-Festival (1988 : Schloss Liechtenstein)
Other Form: Print version: Historical English syntax. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1991 (DLC) 90027043 (OCoLC)22909892
ISBN 9783110863314 (electronic book)
3110863316 (electronic book)
089925683X (U.S. ; acid-free paper)
9780899256832 (U.S. ; acid-free paper)
3110124319 (Germany ; acid-free paper)
9783110124316 (Germany ; acid-free paper)