utzverlag

Michael Skiba: Participial Prepositions and Conjunctions in the History of English

Michael Skiba

Participial Prepositions and Conjunctions in the History of English

Participial prepositions and conjunctions such as considering, during, considered and except are a comparatively recent phenomenon in the history of the English language. They originated in the intense language contact situation between Anglo-French and Middle English in late medieval England. In this book, it is shown that the development is part of a long process of typological change both in the Romance languages and in the English language. Through language contact a productive pattern has been established in English, which still produces new participial prepositions today (e.g. following, based on and looking at). Participial prepositions and conjunctions therefore clearly illustrate the mechanisms and consequences of language change through intense language contact.

Leseproben

Inhaltsverzeichnis und Einleitung (pdf)

  • Hardcover: 240 Seiten
    Format: 24 x 17
    ISBN 978-3-8316-4847-4
    Erschienen: 02.11.2021

    62,00 € (Preisbindung aufgehoben)

  • Ebook (PDF): 240 Seiten
    Format: 24 x 17
    ISBN 978-3-8316-7661-3
    Erschienen: 23.02.2022

    43,99 €

    Bei Ciando kaufen

Ähnliche Bücher

  • Claire V. Fennell (Hrsg.): „Das Büchlein der Gesundheit“

    Claire V. Fennell (Hrsg.)

    „Das Büchlein der Gesundheit“

    This is the first complete edition of „Das Büchlein der Gesundheit“, based on Trieste, Biblioteca Civica Attilio Hortis, MS 2–25, written in a late fifteenth-century Bavarian dialect.

  • Renate Bauer, Christine Elsweiler, Ulrike Krischke, Kerstin Majewski (Hrsg.): Travelling Texts – Texts Travelling

    Renate Bauer, Christine Elsweiler, Ulrike Krischke, Kerstin Majewski (Hrsg.)

    Travelling Texts – Texts Travelling

    This Gedenkschrift celebrates the memory of Professor Hans Sauer and his passion for travelling. The contributions in this volume explore different kinds of textual and temporal travels from various linguistic, literary, and philological perspectives.

  • Esaúl Ruiz Narbona: Transitivising Mechanisms in Old English

    Esaúl Ruiz Narbona

    Transitivising Mechanisms in Old English

    Based on the surviving Old English textual material, as well as on Old English dictionaries and the relevant literature, this work studies the role of preverbs (eg. Byrnan, ābyrnan, forbyrnan, gebyrnan, onbyrnan) as a transitivising mechanism under the scope of the Cardinal Transitivity approach.