A Brief History of English Syntax - Softcover

Fischer, Olga

 
9780521747974: A Brief History of English Syntax
Softcover
ISBN 10: 052174797X ISBN 13: 9780521747974
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

An accessible, up-to-date account of the major changes in English syntax since its beginnings up to the present day.

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About the Authors

Olga Fischer is Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. She is co-author of The Syntax of Early English (Cambridge, 2000), with Wim van der Wurff, Ans van Kemenade and Willem Koopman. She is also the author of Morphosyntactic Change: Functional and Formal Perspectives (2007) and a contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language (Cambridge, 1992).

Hendrik De Smet is a BOF (Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds) Research Professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of Spreading Patterns: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation (2012) and co-editor of On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change (2015).

Wim van der Wurff is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is co-author of The Syntax of Early English (Cambridge, 2000), with Olga Fischer, Ans van Kemenade and Willem Koopman. He is also co-author of Colloquial Bengali (2009) with Mithun B. Nasrin.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
052174797X
ISBN 13 
9780521747974
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
248

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