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Author : Jerzy Krzyszpień
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : English language
ISBN : IND:30000009637749
Author : Ruth Möhlig-Falke
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199777723
The Early English Impersonal Construction aims to demonstrate that an understanding of the functional and semantic aspects of impersonal verbs in Old and Middle English can shed light on questions that remain about these verbs today. The impersonal construction has been a topic of extensive research for over a hundred years. But three quandaries-their seemingly unsystematic development, the gradual loss of impersonal uses, and the difficulty of aligning this with structural changes in early English-have made explanations for their development unsatisfactory. Möhlig-Falke offers a detailed analysis of impersonal verbs within the framework of cognitive and constructional grammar. She focuses on the loss of the impersonal construction as a consequence of a redefinition of the grammatical categories of subject and object, and describes the diachronic development of impersonal verbs as a result of the complex interaction of verbal and constructional meaning. Her research comprises all verbs which are recorded in impersonal use in Old and Middle English, and takes account of their full range of syntactic uses. It is thus the most comprehensive investigation of the impersonal construction in early English available to date.
Author : Ayumi Miura
Publisher : Oxford Studies in the History
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199947157
Impersonal constructions in the history of English form a puzzling category, in that there has been uncertainty as to why some verbs are attested in such constructions while others are not, even though they look almost synonymous. This book tackles this under-discussed question in one of the most popular topics of English historical syntax, with special reference to verbs of emotion in Middle English.
Author : Andrés Canga Alonso,Roberto Torre Alonso,Javier Martín Arista
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443839280
The present volume is intended as a scientific conversation between pioneering research and the traditionally leading disciplines of medievalism. With that aim, the collection presents a selection of crucial essays to add to contemporary discussion which, however convergent and synchronous in approach, also pull in heterogeneous distinct ways and enhance the multiple perspectives which are currently embraced in the study of English medievalism. The chapters, fifteen in all, constitute a peer-reviewed selection of papers presented at the 22nd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature (SELIM), which brought together a large number of scholars worldwide, and was held at the Department of Modern Languages of the University of La Rioja in 2010. A brief glance at the book’s contents evinces the manifestly plural ways in which the English Middle Ages, the mesmerising media tempestas, are being addressed in current critical debate, from the diverse areas of linguistics, literature, teaching methodology and translation. In all, the book becomes exceptional witness to all these developments, being not foolhardy to predict that the dark old ages provide, as ever, foundations for stimulating new highlights and ideas.
Author : Aitor Ibarrola Armendáriz,Alberto Lázaro Lafuente,Alejandro Peraza Díaz,Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo,Amaia Soroa Bacaicoa,Ángel Chaparro Sainz,Ángeles Jordán Soriano,Bárbara Arizti Martín,Celestino Deleyto,Celia Fullana,Cristina Aliaga-García,Daniela Pettersson-Traba,David Hernández Coalla,David Walton,Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo,Elena Dobre ,Ester Díaz Morillo,Eva Darias Beautell,Fabián Orán Llarena,Georgina Alvarez-Morera,Gorka Braceras Martínez,Ingrid Mora-Plaza,Irene Repiso Rodríguez,Isabel González Díaz,Isabel Oltra-Massuet ,Ismael Ibáñez Rosales,Iván Tamaredo Meira ,Joan Carles Mora,José Francisco Fernández ,Laura Gutiérrez González,Laura Martínez-García,Laura Monrós-Gaspar,Lin Pettersson ,Luz Mar González-Arias,Mar Nieves Fernández,María Heredia-Torres,María Isabel Marqués López,María Jesús Llarena Ascanio,Mario Serrano Losada,Miguel Sebastián-Martín,Mireia Ortega,Miriam Borham-Puyal,Neil Campbell,Noelia Castro Chao,Nora Rodríguez-Loro ,Óscar Alonso Álvarez,Rosa Haro Fernández,Rosario Arias,Sara Albán Barcia ,Yolanda Fernández-Pena
Publisher : Ed. Universidad de Cantabria
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9788419024152
"Moving beyond the Pandemic: English and American Studies in Spain" contains the Proceedings of the 44th AEDEAN (Asociación española de estudios anglo-norteamericanos) Conference held in November, 2021 at the University of Cantabria, Spain. The volume is structured into four different sections: “Plenary Speakers”, “Language and Linguistics”, “Literature and Culture” and “Round Tables”. The “Plenary Speakers” section includes papers written by two outstanding figures in the fields of Western Studies and Film Studies, respectively: Neil Campbell’s “An Inventory of Echoes”: Worlding the Western in Trump Era Fiction and Celestino Deleyto’s Transnational Stars and the Idea of Europe: Marion Cotillard, Diane Kruger. The “Language and Linguistics” section includes eleven papers that tackle a variety of issues concerning synchronic and diachronic phenomena in the English language of either native or non-native speakers at the phonetic, lexical, or grammatical level. These studies are indicative of the various current methodological approaches to research in subfields such as language teaching, contrastive linguistics, language contact or language variation, to name but a few. The “Literature and Culture Studies” section contains nineteen papers on topics as diverse as the field itself, ranging from Irish, Canadian, South African, Australian, American or English Literature to Film, Television and Cultural Studies. Finally, the “Round Tables” section comprises four round tables on Literature, Music, Film and Cultural Studies. The contributions included in this volume are a representative and significant sample of the quality of the research being carried out at present in Spanish Universities in the fields of English and American Studies, and are solid evidence that our field is moving beyond the pandemic and is in excellent health.
Author : Andrej Malchukov,Anna Siewierska
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287168
This volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a referential subject. The contributions to this volume deal with all types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates (A-impersonals), presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality (T-impersonals), and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties (R-impersonals), i.e. both meteo-constructions and man-constructions. The typological discussion benefits from a good coverage of impersonality in European languages, but also includes considerations of several African, American, South-East Asian, Australian, and Oceanic languages. The variation in the cross-linguistic realization of impersonality and the diachronic pathways leading to and from impersonality documented in this volume point to a novel perspective on impersonals as transitional structures or an intermediate stage of a more basic diachronic change be it from transitive to intransitive, or from active to passive, or participant-to event-centered construction.
Author : Werner Soderhjelm,Hugo Suolahti,Axel Wallensköld,Arthur Långfors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213164424
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Author : Ilja A. Serzant,Leonid Kulikov
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271303
This volume is an important contribution to the diachrony of non-canonical subjects in a typological perspective. The questions addressed concern the internal mechanisms and triggers for various changes that non-canonical subjects undergo, ranging from semantic motivations to purely structural explanations. The discussion encompasses the whole life-cycle of non-canonical subjects: from their emergence out of non-subject arguments to their expansion, demise or canonicization, focusing primarily on syntactic changes and changes in case-marking. The volume offers a number of different case studies comprising such languages as Italian, Spanish, Old Norse and Russian as well as languages less studied in this context, such as Latin, Classical Armenian, Baltic languages and some East Caucasian languages. Typological generalizations in the form of recurrent developmental paths are offered on the basis of data presented in this volume and in the literature.
Author : Stephen Zill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1287914006
This study investigates the extension of nominative case to the experiencer argument of ME liken and selected other impersonal verbs. Using tokens from the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English and the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence as the primary database, the hypothesis is tested that this process is favoured by the experiencer's relative susceptibility to an agentive interpretation. While a regression model of the diachronic development does not confirm the hypothesis, distinct pragmatic functions for personal and impersonal constructions emerge, which continue to be exploited by language users into the late EModE period.
Author : Peter Uhrig
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110589801
The purpose of the book is twofold. First it tries to give a descriptive account of subjects in English. The second aim is to elucidate the status of the subject both as a concept in grammatical theory and with regard to the question whether the subject is determined by item-specific arbitrary formal restrictions in the same way as postverbal complements of the verb have been shown to be.
Author : Doris Stolberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110339505
The book investigates the diachronic dimension of contact-induced language change based on empirical data from Pennsylvania German (PG), a variety of German in long-term contact with English. Written data published in local print media from Pennsylvania (USA) between 1868 and 1992 are analyzed with respect to semantic changes in the argument structure of verbs, the use of impersonal constructions, word order changes in subordinate clauses and in prepositional phrase constructions. The research objective is to trace language change based on diachronic empirical data, and to assess whether existing models of language contact make provisions to cover the long-term developments found in PG. The focus of the study is thus twofold: first, it provides a detailed analysis of selected semantic and syntactic changes in Pennsylvania German, and second, it links the empirical findings to theoretical approaches to language contact. Previous investigations of PG have drawn a more or less static, rather than dynamic, picture of this contact variety. The present study explores how the dynamics of language contact can bring about language mixing, borrowing, and, eventually, language change, taking into account psycholinguistic processes in (the head of) the bilingual speaker.
Author : Sylvia M. Adamson,Vivien A. Law,Nigel Vincent,Susan Wright
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286000
This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at Cambridge in 1987. It draws together important state-of-the-art' studies in the syntax, phonology, morphology and semantics of Old, Middle and Modern English by prominent figures in the field into a single volume. Core theoretical areas are well represented and there are also major papers in dialectology, stylistics, metrics, socio-historical linguistics and the history of English linguistics.The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor James P. Thorne, whose last conference paper is included in the collection.
Author : Bożena Rozwadowska,Anna Bondaruk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260765
This book sheds new light on the puzzle of psychological predicates in a cross-linguistic perspective by looking at them from a variety of angles at the interfaces between event structure, lexical and viewpoint aspect, syntax and information structure. The individual chapters focus on Polish and Spanish psych verbs, which manifest new overt contrasts that often remain covert in languages such as English, e.g., aspectual distinctions, the peculiarities of dative constructions, or the role of information structure in determining the word order. One of the main contributions of the book lies in positing a new typology of basic event types enriched with the initial boundary events. Moreover, due attention is devoted to dative experiencers as compared to accusative experiencers. Although couched in the generative tradition, the main insights presented in this collection are theory neutral and may be of interest to linguists of all persuasions.
Author : Idan Landau
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262266109
A new account of the peculiar syntax of psychological verbs argues that experiencers are grammaticalized as locative phrases. Experiencers—grammatical participants that undergo a certain psychological change or are in such a state—are grammatically special. As objects (John scared Mary; loud music annoys me), experiencers display two peculiar clusters of nonobject properties across different languages: their syntax is often typical of oblique arguments and their semantic scope is typical of subjects. In The Locative Syntax of Experiencers, Idan Landau investigates this puzzling correlation and argues that experiencers are syntactically coded as (mental) locations. Drawing on results from a range of languages and theoretical frameworks, Landau examines the far-reaching repercussions of this simple claim. Landau shows that all experiencer objects are grammaticalized as locative phrases, introduced by a dative/locative preposition. “Bare” experiencer objects are in fact oblique, too, the preposition being null. This preposition accounts for the oblique psych(ological) properties, attested in case alternations, cliticization, resumption, restrictions on passive formation, and so on. As locatives, object experiencers may undergo locative inversion, giving rise to the common phenomenon of quirky experiencers. When covert, this inversion endows object experiencers with wide scope, attested in control, binding, and wh-quantifier interactions. Landau's synthesis thus provides a novel solution to some of the oldest puzzles in the generative study of psychological verbs. The Locative Syntax of Experiencers offers the most comprehensive description of the syntax of psychological verbs to date, documenting their special properties in more than twenty languages. Its basic theoretical claim is readily translatable into alternative frameworks. Existing accounts of psychological verbs either consider very few languages or fail to incorporate other theoretical frameworks; this study takes a broader perspective, informed by findings of four decades of research
Author : Chiara Fedriani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004257832
This book offers a corpus-based synchronic and diachronic investigation of Experiential constructions in Latin, focusing on patterns of variation and change in argument realization and non-canonical case-marking and providing insights in the domain of diachronic verbal syntax and semantics.