Book contents
- 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
- Part II Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change
- Chapter 6 How Patterns Spread: The To-Infinitival Complement as a Case of Diffusional Change, or ‘To-Infinitives, and Beyond!’
- Chapter 7 Me Liketh/Lotheth but I Loue/Hate: Impersonal/Non-Impersonal Boundaries in Old and Middle English
- Chapter 8 That’s Luck, If You Ask Me: The Rise of an Intersubjective Comment Clause
- Chapter 9 Misreading and Language Change: A Foray into Qualitative Historical Linguistics
- Chapter 10 The Conjunction and in Phrasal and Clausal Structures in the Old Bailey Corpus
- Part III Comparative and Typological Approaches
- References
- Index
Chapter 10 - The Conjunction and in Phrasal and Clausal Structures in the Old Bailey Corpus
from Part II - Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2019
Book contents
- 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
- Part II Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change
- Chapter 6 How Patterns Spread: The To-Infinitival Complement as a Case of Diffusional Change, or ‘To-Infinitives, and Beyond!’
- Chapter 7 Me Liketh/Lotheth but I Loue/Hate: Impersonal/Non-Impersonal Boundaries in Old and Middle English
- Chapter 8 That’s Luck, If You Ask Me: The Rise of an Intersubjective Comment Clause
- Chapter 9 Misreading and Language Change: A Foray into Qualitative Historical Linguistics
- Chapter 10 The Conjunction and in Phrasal and Clausal Structures in the Old Bailey Corpus
- Part III Comparative and Typological Approaches
- References
- Index
Summary
Late Modern English (lModE) is characterised by comparatively few changes to the inventory of morphosyntactic variants (Denison 1998: 92–3). However, a great deal of linguistic change takes place in the period, as the frequencies and relative proportions of many linguistic features (e.g. the progressive and be vs. have as the perfect auxiliary with intransitive main verbs) change greatly between 1700 and 1900.
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- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax , pp. 234 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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