An Historical Syntax of the English Language, 1. osaE. J. Brill, 1963 - 657 pages |
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... Instances of type [ 1 ] seem to date from the middle of the seventeenth century ; but perhaps the following example may be looked upon as an early instance : c1450 Rule St. Benet , Northern Metric . Version ( EETS ) 115 , 2385 , ' When ...
... Instances of type [ 1 ] seem to date from the middle of the seventeenth century ; but perhaps the following example may be looked upon as an early instance : c1450 Rule St. Benet , Northern Metric . Version ( EETS ) 115 , 2385 , ' When ...
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... instances of this passive construction are listed . That the earliest of them date from the fourteenth century does not warrant the conclusion that before that time combinations of verb + prepositional object did not exist , for there ...
... instances of this passive construction are listed . That the earliest of them date from the fourteenth century does not warrant the conclusion that before that time combinations of verb + prepositional object did not exist , for there ...
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... instances are equally convincing . It is e.g. possible that in the collo- cation ' hi hit forgymeleasodon ' in the instance from Ælfric's Homilies hit may refer back to something definite ( e.g. their task , their duty ) , although the ...
... instances are equally convincing . It is e.g. possible that in the collo- cation ' hi hit forgymeleasodon ' in the instance from Ælfric's Homilies hit may refer back to something definite ( e.g. their task , their duty ) , although the ...
Contents
Bibliography | xxiii |
CHAPTER | 3 |
a Indirect Object + Causative Object | 7 |
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æfter Ælfred Ælfric Ancr Bede Smith Ben Jonson beon Beowulf Blickl Boeth C. P. Sweet Cardale Caxton Chaucer Cockayne complement construction copula Crist Curs dative Dial Dryden ealle eallum EETS English Grammar English Language Everym folc fultumes Genesis gode Gower Greg hath haue heora hine Hist hwæt Idem intr intransitive intransitive verbs Jespersen king Krapp kyng Language Layamon Lindisf London Lord mæg mannum Middle English MMED Myst Napier noun O. E. Chron O. E. Gosp object obsol Old English Oros Paris plural Poems preposition Pres pronoun Sæt Saints sceal Scott Shakesp singular swide Syntax Tauchn thee Thorpe thou verb VIII wære Wærferth whan wolde Wulfstan Wyclif Zandvoort þæm þæs þæt þam þan þat þei þet þing þis þonne þou