Hendrik De Smet 
Spreading Patterns [PDF ebook] 
Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation

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Spreading Patterns examines how new constructions emerge and spread through the grammar of a language, in a process called "diffusion". This is done by tracking the development of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day. These are subject-controlled gerund complements, forto-infinitives, and subject-controlled participial complements. In the first half of the book, De Smet focuses on how and why patterns diffuse. In the second half, which is largely corpus-based, De Smet tests his theoretical model of diffusion on the three complement types. His work demonstrates how diffusion interacts with the grammatical system of complementation, how diffusion proceeds, step-by-step, and why diffusion is directional. Spreading Patterns will appeal to scholars and advanced students of English, history of English, and historical linguistics.

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язык английский ● Формат PDF ● ISBN 9780199812769 ● издатель Oxford University Press ● опубликованный 2012 ● Загружаемые 6 раз ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 2629504 ● Защита от копирования Adobe DRM
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