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Author Stein, Dieter, 1946-

Title The semantics of syntactic change : aspects of the evolution of do in English / by Dieter Stein
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (444 pages) : illustrations
Series Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 47
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 47.
Contents Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter One: Introduction -- 1. Theoretical motivation -- 2. Why re-study the development of do? -- 3. Theories and data -- 4. Heterogeneity of explanatory dimensions -- 5. Structure of presentation -- Chapter Two: Do up to the fifteenth century -- 1. Phases of do development -- 2. The origin of “meaningless periphrastic do� -- 3. Do in the Paston letters (1422�1509) -- 4. The democratization of do: a speculation -- Chapter Three: Do and discourse structure -- 1. Do as a marker of discourse-semantic prominence
2. Saliency and foregrounding3. Foreground and contrastiveness -- 4. Local foreground structure markers -- Chapter Four: Syntax and style in the sixteenth century -- 1. Do in the sixteenth century: the quantitative problem -- 2. Standard and prose style -- 3. Main stylistic currents -- 4. Relevant stylistic structures -- 5. Imitating Latin syntax -- 6. Antithesis -- Chapter Five: The semantics of do in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- 1. Analysis of a pamphlet (1521) -- 2. Authority -- 3. Rhetoric and foreground -- 4. Rhetorical questions
5. Negation6. Intensity -- 7. Performatives, speech act verbs, and verbs of perception -- 8. Logical relationships -- 9. Standardization and synonyms -- Chapter Six: Unity and diversity: style, dialect and the semantics of do before 1600 -- 1. Use and semantics -- 2. Syntactic versus semantic explanation -- 3. Do as a marker of courtly speech -- 4. Do in low texts -- 5. The demise of courtly do -- 6. A case study: Early American letters -- 7. Semantic, stylistic and dialectal diversity, and German tun -- 8. Methodological considerations
Chapter Seven: Do in the Shakespeare corpus1. An initial hypothesis -- 1.1. The problem -- 1.2. The phonotactics and frequency of thou + st -- 1.3. Methodological advantages of the Shakespeare corpus -- 2. Subcategorizations and terminological conventions -- 3. Phonotactics and periphrasis frequency -- 3.1. Differences between person and tense categories -- 3.2. Differences between phonetically defined types of verb stems in the present -- 3.3. Differences between syntactic contexts in the present -- 3.4. Generalization in the present from thou + you
4. Diachronic interpretation of the synchronic pattern4.1. Analysis of the preterite and diachronic interpretation of the subcategorical pattern -- 4.2. Stability of the variational pattern -- 5. Further strategies of avoiding (d)st -- 6. Negatives -- Chapter Eight: Do in questions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the statistical evidence -- 1. Methodological considerations -- 2. Corpora analyzed -- 3. From raw data to indices: an example -- 4. Periphrasis frequency in questions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the evidence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-442) and index
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Subject Do (The English word)
English language -- Syntax.
English language -- Semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Etymology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
Do (Vocablo)
Lengua inglesa -- Sintaxis
Lengua inglesa -- Semántica
Do (The English word)
English language -- Semantics
English language -- Syntax
Hilfsverb
Sprachwandel
do
Taalverandering.
Semantiek.
Werkwoorden.
To do (werkwoord)
Engels.
Englisch.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110846829
3110846829