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    Argument Structure in Flux

Argument Structure in Flux

Noelia Castro-Chao
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      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.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Noelia Castro-Chao EAN: 9783034341899 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 426 g HEIGHT: 225 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-01-21 CITY: GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax WIDTH: 150 cm SPINE:

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      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.
      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.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Noelia Castro-Chao EAN: 9783034341899 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 426 g HEIGHT: 225 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-01-21 CITY: GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax WIDTH: 150 cm SPINE:

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      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.

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