Composite Predicates in Middle English with the Verbs nimen and taken

Iglesias-Rábade, Luis

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“…However, both Kytö (1999) and Claridge (2000) point out that the informal versus formal distinction is not always consistent: Some texts that might be considered more formal, such as legal texts and official correspondence, show more frequent use of LVCs in some corpora (Kytö 1999:178). Iglesias-Rabade (2001:154) found that the category Romance and Fiction in Middle English exhibits the highest rate of LVC use compared to texts from other types, such as Technical, History , and Religion . Although the categories and text type labels vary from study to study, there is general consensus that the frequency of LVCs may be related in some ways to genre.…”

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“…These two possibilities have been addressed in diachronic studies on the influence of the source language on the LVC frequency in the target language 24 . Akimoto & Brinton (1999:27) and Iglesias-Rabade (2001:155) provide examples of Latin calques in Old English, such as missas facere > mæssesong don ‘do/conduct mass’, or French calques in Middle English, such as prendre commencement > taken beginning . Brinton (2008:38) notes that, of the seven most common NPs in LVCs according to Bergs 2005, four have Romance origins.…”

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“…These differences are reflected in the lower frequency of LVCs, the higher diversity of light verb + NP pairings, and in the significant increase in the use of this construction over time exclusively among the Old Swedish translations of Latin and Low German in the 14th and 15th centuries. Further analysis might also uncover the role that different subgenres play within the broad genre of nonlegal texts, as seen in studies on early stages of English (Kytö 1999, Iglesias-Rabade 2001), or uncover the effects of different source languages (for example, Latin versus Low German). However, the present study shows that the use of LVCs in texts with considerable foreign influence is significantly different and that these patterns of use change over time.…”

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“…In bottom-up studies, one selects only a few light verbs, limits the search to NPs that are paired with those few verbs, and finds a narrow range of frequent collocations. Many diachronic studies of early English corpora follow the bottom-up procedure and discuss one or more of the five typical light verbs ( make, take, give, have , and do ), as do the studies in Brinton & Akimoto 1999, as well as Iglesias-Rábade 2001, Gárate 2003, and Elenbaas 2013. The top-down approach has become more common in recent studies of Present Day English, however, including Allerton's (2002) compre-hensive analysis of thin verbs and Ronan & Schneider 2015.…”

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“…24See Traugott 1999, Iglesias-Rabade 2001, and Brinton 2008 for a helpful overview on the topic of foreign influence on the increase of LVCs in Old and Middle English.…”

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A Diachronic Analysis of Light Verb Constructions in Old Swedish

Sundquist

2018

J Ger Ling

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This study provides an empirical analysis of light verb constructions in Old Swedish. These constructions contain a semantically light verb, such as giva ‘give’ or göra ‘make’, that may be paired with an abstract nominal object, as in giva radh ‘give advice’ or giva hiälp ‘give help’. Using a corpus of nine Old Swedish texts written in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, I track the frequency of light verb constructions and analyze the range of transitive light verb + object pairings. I consider the effects of time, genre, and the type of modification to the nominal object in the quantitative analysis. The results contribute to ongoing discussions in crosslinguistic, diachronic research on the reasons for the increase in frequency of light verb constructions as well as the possibility that this construction exhibits characteristics of grammaticalization or lexicalization.

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“…24See Traugott 1999, Iglesias-Rabade 2001, and Brinton 2008 for a helpful overview on the topic of foreign influence on the increase of LVCs in Old and Middle English.…”

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A Diachronic Analysis of Light Verb Constructions in Old Swedish

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J Ger Ling

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Diachronic pertinacity of light verbs

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Lahiri

2013

Lingua

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We contrast the historical data with respect to light verbs and auxiliaries in Indo-Aryan and show that light verbs are comparatively stable and unlikely to be subject to reanalysis or restructuring. We propose that there is a very tight connection between a light verb and its corresponding main verb, and that this connection differs markedly from the relationship an auxiliary bears to the main verb it is derived from. In particular, we depart from the received view that the existence of a light verb is due to a historical process of semantic bleaching. We instead propose that synchronically there is a single underlying lexical entry which tightly binds light verbs to their corresponding main verb. This proposal accounts not only for the simultaneous synchronic uses of light and main verbs, but also for the historical data.

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A Brief History of English Syntax

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Wurff

2017

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In its 1,500-year history, the English language has seen dramatic grammatical changes. This book offers a comprehensive and reader-friendly account of the major developments, including changes in word order, the noun phrase and verb phrase, changing relations between clausal constituents and the development of new subordinate constructions. The book puts forward possible explanations for change, drawing on the existing and most recent literature and with reference to the major theoretical models. The authors use corpus evidence to investigate language-internal and language-external motivations for change, including the impact of language contact. The book is intended for students who have been introduced to the history of English and want to deepen their understanding of major grammatical changes, and for linguists in general with a historical interest. It will also be of value to literary scholars professionally engaged with older texts. Professor Emeritus of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, olga fischer is a contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language (1992), co-author of The Syntax of Early English (2000), and author of Morphosyntactic Change: Functional and Formal Perspectives (2007). She has been an editor of the Language chapter in the Year'sW o r k in English Studies since 1998, and is co-editor of the book series Iconicity in Language and Literature. She has written widely on topics within English historical linguistics, grammaticalization, iconicity and analogy. hendrik de smet is a BOF research professor at KU Leuven. He is the author of Spreading Patterns: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation (2013) and co-editor of On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change (2015). His work is primarily on mechanisms of language change, including reanalysis, analogy and blending. He is also involved in the compilation of several freely available text corpora for historical research, including the Corpus of Late Modern English Texts and the Corpus of English Novels. wim van der wurff is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is co-author of The Syntax of Early English (2000), Colloquial Bengali (2009), and has co-edited volumes on reported speech, modality, imperatives and diachronic syntax. His recent work focuses on the way factors of different types interact in the emergence and decline of syntactic constructions.

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Composite Predicates in Middle English with the Verbs nimen and taken

Cited by 10 publications

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A Diachronic Analysis of Light Verb Constructions in Old Swedish

A Diachronic Analysis of Light Verb Constructions in Old Swedish

Diachronic pertinacity of light verbs

A Brief History of English Syntax

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