A Historical Syntax of English by Los, Bettelou

A Historical Syntax of English (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780748641437)

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A Historical Syntax of English by Los, Bettelou

A Historical Syntax of English

$29.95
A Historical Syntax of English by Los, Bettelou

A Historical Syntax of English

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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This book discusses a number of approaches to charting the major developments in the syntax of English, addressing key issues of interpretation and focus for the benefit of students of the topic. It does not assume any knowledge of Old or Middle English or of formal syntax, although students should be familiar with traditional syntactic concepts such as verbs and nouns, subjects and objects, and a general knowledge of linguistic concepts such as morphology or case.Drawing on explanations from both formal and functional approaches, Los explores how syntactic changes are the product of the interaction of many factors, external (the product of a certain sociolinguistic constellation of language or dialect contact) and internal (e.g. the loss of morphology, pressure from analogy).The book will strike a balance between theoretical explanation and accessibility to readers who have not had any training in formal syntax.

Author: Bettelou Los
ISBN-10: 0748641432
ISBN-13: 9780748641437
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2015
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d
By Bettelou Los
By Bettelou Los
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Bettelou Los is Forbes Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 1986 and has since held teaching and research positions at the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit, the University of Nijmegen, Radboud University Nijmegen and other colleges of high education. She participates in the research program The Diachrony of Complex Predicates in West Germanic, and has published several papers on diachronic syntax. Previous publications include The Handbook of the History of English, Blackwell, as co-editor (2006), and The Rise of the To-Infinitive, Oxford University Press (2005).

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