Composite predicates in English : processes of specialization /
Composite Predicates (CPs) are of particular interest to linguists in that only some of them are semantically restricted in present-day English, while others are not. This book explores the semantic-syntactic evolution of twenty-four different CPs in English from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2025].
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| Series: | Studies in English language.
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Table of Contents:
- The evolution of CPs: theories, concepts and their relevance
- The CPs under investigation, the simple verbs and the hypotheses
- Methodology
- The evolution of the simple verbs
- The semantic evolution of Type I-CPs
- The semantic evolution of Type II-CPs
- Syntactic changes and a comparison of semantic and syntactic changes
- Theoretical discussion
- Conclusion and outlook.