Nonfinite supplements in the recent history of english
Auteur :
Bouzada-Jabois, Carla
Éditeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
ISBN :
9783034342261
Date de publication :
27 oct. 2021
Dimensions :
22,5 x 15,0 cm
Poids :
614 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
This book explores subjectless ing- and ed-supplement constructions in the recent history of English from a corpus-based perspective in an attempt to provide their syntactic and semantic characterisation in terms of prototypicality and to describe diachronic variation in Late Modern and Present-day English.