Predications in competition and the rise of serial verb constructions in English: The verbal and nominal...

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Maurizio Gotti Ana Elvira Ojanguren López

Predications in competition and the rise of serial verb constructions in English

The verbal and nominal complementation of Old English aspectual and manipulative verbs

Maurizio Gotti, Ana Elvira Ojanguren López

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English

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
24 June 2024

Usage & grammar guides; Historical & comparative linguistics; Grammar, syntax; Lexicography

Series: Linguistic Insights

This book explains the competition in the complementation of Old English aspectual and manipulative verbs that arises between finite and non-finite clauses on the one hand and between clauses and noun phrases on the other hand. The book combines textual and lexicographical sources of Old English in order to address this question from the perspective of the complex syntactic configurations within the verbal classes under analysis. The main thrust of the book is synchronic and its basis is a full-fledged functional theory of language, such as Role and Reference Grammar. On the descriptive side, the book takes the line that the strictly synchronic analysis of a linguistic stage can give insight into the historical development of the language. On the explanatory side, the discussion is couched in terms of functional categories and relations, while typologically relevant constructions like verbal serialisation set the conclusions in the wider field of cross-linguistic comparison.

By: Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
Series edited by: Maurizio Gotti
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Volume: 305
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 814g
ISBN: 9783034346443
ISBN 10: 3034346441
Series: Linguistic Insights
Pages: 534
Publication Date: 24 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents – Acknowledgements – Introduction – Rationale - Linking semantics to syntax in a structural-functional theory - Toward an RRG analysis of Old English - Method, sources and data - The complementation of Old English aspectual verbs - The complementation of Old English manipulative verbs – Competition - Complementation and the rise of serial verb constructions in English – Conclusions – References – Appendices - Index

Dr. Ana Elvira Ojanguren López is a lecturer in Historical Linguistics and English at the University of La Rioja, Spain. She earned a Ph.D. with a thesis about Old English syntax and semantics, which received the Bruce Mitchell Award of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM).