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The Development from Case-Forms to Prepositional Constructions in Old English Prose (Paperback, New edition)
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The Development from Case-Forms to Prepositional Constructions in Old English Prose (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Linguistic Insights, 88
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The development from a synthetic to an analytic language is one of
the most important topics in English historical syntax. This
development is reflected in the gradual decrease of case-forms and
the replacement of their functions with equivalent prepositional
constructions. Focussing on the Old English period, when case-forms
and prepositional constructions overlapped in various functions,
this book aims to answer an unresolved question: was there a
significant change in the use of case-forms and, alternatively, in
the use of prepositions plus case-forms in contexts where both
types were possible? The author makes a statistical comparison
between prose texts written in the early Old English period and
texts of the later Old English period; she also takes into account
stylistic features of individual texts. Thus, this book addresses
this Old English syntactic issue both from a historical and a
stylistic perspective and shows the stages of development during
the Old English period.
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