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 9 - Misreading and Language Change: A Foray into Qualitative Historical Linguistics
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
David Denison’s ‘minigraph’ contribution to volume IV of the Cambridge History of the English Language (Denison 1998, CHEL IV) is widely acknowledged as a landmark achievement in the study of late Modern English (lModE) syntax. Denison himself introduced it as a ‘provisional’ survey of relatively unexplored territory: ‘syntactic change in late Modern English is only just beginning to get its share of serious scholarly attention’ (1998: 92).
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- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax , pp. 210 - 233Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019