An Historical Syntax of the English LanguageBrill Archive, 2002 - 27 էջ 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. |
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Old English 1151 | 648 |
Adverbial Clauses 87795 | 651 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 661 |
Type Do I leave this fellow tied like that? 731 | 683 |
Futural can must may will and ought 736 | 692 |
have done it versus before I shall have done it 754 | 702 |
Present tense in narratives as a variant of the Preterite 76079 | 726 |
Type 579 B C Nebuchadnezar takes Tyre 784 | 732 |
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 |
Type A desire of enlarging his Empire | 1049 |
763 | 1052 |
Type Be ye redy To al my lust And never ye to gruch it 993 | 1056 |
CHAPTER NINE | 1065 |
Old English forms in end denoting persons 1009 | 1071 |
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 Nowhere were the powers that be so cherished as at Oxford | 790 |
Type We shut the door they knit their fists | 796 |
Type Faint heart never won fair lady General truths | 802 |
Type O that I had wings 8123 | 814 |
Type Si Gode lof | 841 |
Type Ciricsceattas sin agifene be sce Martines mæssan 8479 | 853 |
Attributive Clauses 876 | 859 |
Clauses of condition and exception not opening with a conjunction 882 | 903 |
Of alternative hypothesis 885 | 909 |
Of indifference i e opening with whatsoever who so etc 886 | 918 |
Type I considered it my duty to bring the matter up | 924 |
The types as who say as who saith as who should say 890 | 928 |
Type He hæfde gyrde hine mid to sleanne | 930 |
Of cause motive reason 894 | 936 |
766 | 940 |
Definition 896 | 942 |
Type Sin no more is a task too hard 898 | 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 |
THE INFINITIVE AS AN ADJUNCT TO AN ADJECTIVE | 988 |
Type Clene religion is helpen widuwen 917 | 993 |
Type There was nothing able for to shake me 943 | 995 |
Type The troops were embarked with a view to retake the Island 950 | 1003 |
Type Would you not suppose Your bondage happy to be made a Queene? 956 | 1007 |
Type He was not man enough to confess the tuth 962 | 1013 |
Type She made as if to hide him 966 | 1019 |
971 | 1026 |
Development of the various endings 101931 | 1079 |
764 | 1082 |
Confusion in spelling of endings in Middle English 102730 | 1098 |
III2 | 1112 |
THE FORM IN ING AS A PREDICATIVE ADJUNCT | 1118 |
1051 | 1121 |
Type Knowing causes loving 10524 | 1125 |
THE FORM IN ING AS A RELATED FREE ADJUNCT | 1132 |
1065 | 1136 |
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 |
1079 | 1151 |
Preceded by preposition | 1156 |
1083 | 1158 |
Type The bodies of the unknowns a list of wanteds | 1162 |
Type Its a curious thing your saying that 10924 | 1168 |
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 |
Type The wishedfor day had arrived 1136 | 1237 |
1140 | 1241 |
Type A mirour polisshed bright 1141 | 1244 |
Type He was worried a little 1145 | 1250 |
Type Dont speak until spoken to 1148 | 1257 |
Past participle equivalent to a conjunction or conjunctional preposition 1169 | 1296 |
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Common terms and phrases
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