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- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Studies in English Language
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Analysing English Syntax Past and Present
- Part I Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change
- Chapter 1 What Is Special about Pronouns?
- Chapter 2 What For?
- Chapter 3 Whatever Happened to Whatever?
- Chapter 4 Are Comparative Modals Converging or Diverging in English? Different Answers from the Perspectives of Grammaticalisation and Constructionalisation
- Chapter 5 The Definite Article in Old English: Evidence from Ælfric’s Grammar
- Part II Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change
- Part III Comparative and Typological Approaches
- References
- Index
Chapter 3 - Whatever Happened to Whatever?
from Part I - Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2019
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Studies in English Language
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Analysing English Syntax Past and Present
- Part I Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change
- Chapter 1 What Is Special about Pronouns?
- Chapter 2 What For?
- Chapter 3 Whatever Happened to Whatever?
- Chapter 4 Are Comparative Modals Converging or Diverging in English? Different Answers from the Perspectives of Grammaticalisation and Constructionalisation
- Chapter 5 The Definite Article in Old English: Evidence from Ælfric’s Grammar
- Part II Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change
- Part III Comparative and Typological Approaches
- References
- Index
Summary
The research presented below focuses on aspects of the contemporary forms and uses of whatever in Present-day English, along with some discussion of recent diachronic variation which has given rise to these contemporary forms and uses. The research is partly quantitative and partly qualitative in nature; the quantification of variants is an attempt to complement the work of Brinton (2017), whose research on whatever is primarily qualitative, and we extend her qualitative analysis by considering additional data from a web corpus.
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- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax , pp. 81 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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