Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax

doi:10.1017/9781108303576

A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well as some emerging scholars in the field, covers a wide variety of approaches to grammatical categories and categorial change, constructions and constructional change, and comparative and typological research. Each of the fourteen chapters, based on the analysis of authentic data, highlights the wealth and breadth of the study of English syntax (including morphosyntax), both theoretically and empirically, from Old English through to the present day. The result is a body of research which will add substantially to the current study of the syntax of the English language, by stimulating further research in the field.

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Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
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Studies in English Language - Series page
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Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax - Title page
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Contents
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Tables
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Contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Analysing English Syntax Past and Present
pp 1-22
- By Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Emma Moore, Linda van Bergen, Willem B. Hollmann
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Part I - Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change
pp 23-146
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Chapter 1 - What Is Special about Pronouns?
pp 25-53
- By John Payne
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Chapter 2 - What For?
pp 54-80
- By Bas Aarts
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Chapter 3 - Whatever Happened to Whatever?
pp 81-104
- By Dan McColm, Graeme Trousdale
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Chapter 4 - Are Comparative Modals Converging or Diverging in English? Different Answers from the Perspectives of Grammaticalisation and Constructionalisation
pp 105-129
- By Elizabeth Closs Traugott
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Chapter 5 - The Definite Article in Old English: Evidence from Ælfric’s Grammar
pp 130-146
- By Cynthia L. Allen
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Part II - Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change
pp 147-250
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Chapter 6 - How Patterns Spread: The To-Infinitival Complement as a Case of Diffusional Change, or ‘To-Infinitives, and Beyond!’
pp 149-169
- By Bettelou Los
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Chapter 7 - Me Liketh/Lotheth but I Loue/Hate: Impersonal/Non-Impersonal Boundaries in Old and Middle English
pp 170-189
- By Ayumi Miura
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Chapter 8 - That’s Luck, If You Ask Me: The Rise of an Intersubjective Comment Clause
pp 190-209
- By Laurel J. Brinton
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Chapter 9 - Misreading and Language Change: A Foray into Qualitative Historical Linguistics
pp 210-233
- By Sylvia Adamson
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Chapter 10 - The Conjunction and in Phrasal and Clausal Structures in the Old Bailey Corpus
pp 234-250
- By Merja Kytö, Erik Smitterberg
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Part III - Comparative and Typological Approaches
pp 251-365
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Chapter 11 - The Role Played by Analogy in Processes of Language Change: The Case of English Have-to Compared to Spanish Tener-que
pp 253-282
- By Olga Fischer, Hella Olbertz
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Chapter 12 - Modelling Step Change: The History of Will-Verbs in Germanic
pp 283-314
- By Kersti Börjars, Nigel Vincent
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Chapter 13 - Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English
pp 315-335
- By Benedikt Heller, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
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Chapter 14 - American English: No Written Standard before the Twentieth Century?
pp 336-365
- By Christian Mair
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References
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Index
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