Argument Structure in Flux

Language: English

Published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, CH, 2021

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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.

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Title
Argument Structure in Flux
Author
Noelia Castro-Chao
Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, CH
Publication year
2021
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New
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Paperback
Language
English
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303434189X
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9783034341899
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426 grams
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Book 72 of 76: Linguistic Insights

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