An Historical Syntax of the English LanguageBrill Archive, 2002 - 27 páginas The aim of this study is to provide an outline of the development, from the earliest times to the present day, of all the English syntatical constructions with a verbal form as their nucleus. Professor Visser's description is based on a very extensive collection of documentary material covering every kind of writing in prose and poetry in the Old, Middle and Modern periods, drawing on quotations illustrating syntactical phenomena in Bosworth & Toller, O.E.D., M.M.E.D., E.D.D., and D.O.S.T., but also making reference to obsolete usages not found in any grammar, and to the views of English and American grammarians of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries on the various syntactical constructions. The volumes of this work originally appeared in the early sixties and seventies and were well received by readers and reviewers. Volumes 1 and 2 underwent correction in the light of these early reactions. We should like to think that this work will continue to be available to the scholarly world without great increases in the price. We are however only reprinting the individual volumes in small numbers, and so we have decided that in order to guarantee a consistent reprint and pricing policy for the future, the work should be available henceforth only as a set of four volumes. |
Contenido
Old English 1151 | 648 |
Adverbial Clauses 87795 | 651 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 661 |
B TIMESPHERE THE FUTURE | 669 |
Futural Present 71722 | 676 |
Type Do I leave this fellow tied like that? 731 | 683 |
In adverbial clauses not opening with conjunction 751 | 700 |
have done it versus before I shall have done it 754 | 702 |
Adverbs in ungainga | 1008 |
Type Clene religion is helpen widuwen 917 | 1010 |
Type He was not man enough to confess the tuth 962 | 1013 |
Type She made as if to hide him 966 | 1019 |
971 | 1026 |
After after at be for from into instead of of upon þurh till tofor without 976 | 1038 |
Type Brennende fyre soukynge childryn | 1043 |
Type He find pleasure in doing good No my dear 985 | 1048 |
Present tense in narratives as a variant of the Preterite 76079 | 726 |
Type 579 B C Nebuchadnezar takes Tyre 784 | 732 |
The futural present in dependent syntactical units | 737 |
Type It had become imperative that I vanish | 743 |
CHAPTER | 745 |
Type O that I had wings 8123 | 762 |
Type One that rode to his execution could never go so slow 818 | 769 |
Type sume cwædon he is crist 8212 | 770 |
Type Seiden that thes man hath not don ony thing worthi deeth 8268 | 779 |
Independent Indirect Reporting 833 | 785 |
Type Si Gode lof 841 | 796 |
Type Cume se blinda to me 846 | 802 |
Type Hwi ge swa unnytte sion? 855 | 810 |
Subject Clauses 8638 | 818 |
Type He næfde hwanon he hyt agulde 875 | 856 |
Temporal | 879 |
Concessive clauses not opening with a conjunction 884 | 907 |
Of indifference i e opening with whatsoever who so etc 886 | 918 |
The types as who say as who saith as who should say 890 | 928 |
Of cause motive reason 894 | 936 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 942 |
THE INFINITIVE AS SUBJECT | 948 |
Type She wepte that pity was to here 902 | 954 |
Modern English 11545 | 956 |
Type It is nat good for to take the breed of sonys 909 | 960 |
THE INFINITIVE AFTER A COPULA | 971 |
Type All we can do is wish each other a Happy New Year 918 | 972 |
Type A figure of thynges to come 927 | 980 |
Type Fame did me the favour as to publish it presently 933 | 986 |
851 | 993 |
Type He bore his sword to the cutlers to grinde 947 | 999 |
Type He was a shrewed chamberlein So to beguile a worthi queene 954 | 1005 |
Type Would you not suppose Your bondage happy to be made a Queene? 956 | 1007 |
Type A desire of enlarging his Empire | 1049 |
Type Swedish Foreign Minister To Quit 991 | 1054 |
999 | 1060 |
Development of the various endings 101931 | 1079 |
THE FORM IN ING AS SUBJECT | 1098 |
identifying 1051a | 1102 |
Type Knowing causes loving 10524 | 1125 |
Type The king hearing this was stupefact 1062 | 1132 |
Type They runnen to the apostle hus and carpand o that grisli crak 1071 | 1139 |
Type And knocking at the gate twas opend wide 1072 | 1140 |
Type Speaking of daughters I have seen Miss Dombey 1075 | 1146 |
After and | 1157 |
Type His hat being blown off his head chanced to fall into the court 1085 | 1160 |
Type Her betrotheds sudden death | 1163 |
Type Its a curious thing your saying that 10924 | 1168 |
Past participle equivalent to a conjunction or conjunctional preposition | 1169 |
Type I hope its all right me coming in 1102 | 1182 |
Type Restrayne yow of vengence taking 110814 | 1190 |
Type Hopegiving phrases his heartpercing dart 1115 | 1196 |
Type A daye was limited for justifying of the bill 1120 | 1202 |
Type Wenches sitt in the shade singing of ballads 1121 | 1203 |
Type Pending the result I want you to remain 1125 | 1217 |
CHAPTER | 1223 |
Type A returned soldier in search of work 1129 | 1230 |
1132 | 1232 |
Type The wishedfor day had arrived 1136 | 1237 |
Type A poore man met the bishop riding on his gelding 1072 | 1241 |
Type A mirour polisshed bright 1141 | 1244 |
Type He was worried a little 1145 | 1250 |
Type Dont speak until spoken to 1148 | 1257 |
In undersigning documents 1170 | 1296 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
An Historical Syntax of the English Language: Part 1 ; Syntactical units ... Fredericus Theodorus Visser Sin vista previa disponible - 1963 |
An Historical Syntax of the English Language Fredericus Theodorus Visser Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
An Historical Syntax of the English Language: Syntactical ..., Volumen1;Volumen3 Fredericus Theodorus Visser Sin vista previa disponible - 1969 |
Términos y frases comunes
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