Argument Structure in Flux: The Development of Impersonal Constructions in Middle and Early Modern English,...

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Noelia Castro-Chao Noelia Castro-Chao

Argument Structure in Flux

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The Development of Impersonal Constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with Special...

Noelia Castro-Chao, Noelia Castro-Chao

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English

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
21 January 2021

Dictionaries; Usage & grammar guides; Historical & comparative linguistics; Grammar, syntax

Series: Linguistic Insights

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 (1470s–1690s). 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.

By: Noelia Castro-Chao, Noelia Castro-Chao
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Volume: 274
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9783034341899
ISBN 10: 303434189X
Series: Linguistic Insights
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 21 January 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 - Lust - Thirst - Long

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.