An Historical Syntax of the English Language, 3. köide

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Brill Archive, 1963

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Preface
xxiii
CHAPTER
3
d Indirect Object + Direct Object
4
Type pay loved samen together between mutually 4845
5
To be toweard 244
8
In invocations type A bless you
9
in Old English 160
11
In stage directions type A sits down
15
80
240
After than 189193
244
g Complement a verbal form in ing e g Saving is having 288
258
in Modern English 151
263
82
266
Me as subject a survival of O E impersonal constructions
269
84
274
Oblique form after than and as
275

Apo koinou construction in dialects
21
Formal it in hit macian to hop it to lord it to rough it etc 492500
26
Type A is pity that he went
27
Absence of the relative objectpronoun 62744
31
Obsolescence of the himhine hungreth construction 3438
34
e Direct Object + Direct Object
35
In statements referring to the weather etc
36
Me is liefer I had liefer I am liefer etc
40
Type Ic it eom
42
in Modern English 162
46
Type It is asked me + clause
49
in Old English after se þ¿s þam þa and after nouns 627
51
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53
Type He was rich was Dick
55
Type Our Lord that in hevene ne erthe he ne hath non pere 75
58
Collective nouns not denoting persons
70
Neither idem
77
Concord of copula connecting nouns of different number 104
85
Two coordinated subjects of different person III
89
51
92
Concord after myself thyself etc used as subject
95
Verbs representing the action as quasiautomatic 163
100
Concord in number after para pe
110
VERB WITHOUT COMPLEMENT
115
6888
117
With the adverbs best better easier etc 168
119
The various types
129
213
136
Type Ic was him + adjective e g Ic was him leof 33349
142
Quasitransitive verbs e g to amble to hop
145
219
150
69
156
Independent to be 1701
160
Idem + at or + for e g What are you at I am for him
171
in early Modern English 629
172
Type He wont come If he does what then? 200
174
70
177
Type the man we laughed
178
In so doing 213
180
with subject preceding as John does
183
72
206
The verb itself repeated with retention of so
214
C With no more neither ne nor
220
Definition of the term copula
228
a Subject pluralpredicate noun plural 259
234
189
288
611
306
Type Him tweonode impersonal
311
618
330
Idem with other verbs than beon e g ic weard him wrad
348
190
349
Type He was me + noun e g He was me freond 35066
354
191
357
g Types Feower d¿las beop dam bisceope A sone was not to him
363
192
366
Character of causative object as sole object he weorces gefeah
370
Verbs of French origin with idem
376
Verbs of touching
382
VISSER An Historical English Syntax
385
type Hy wynsomedon on God
396
type This pay marvailed on
408
Types To whom should he appeal?Whom sh he appeal to?
414
The direct object as sole object 418666
420
b in Middle English 495
439
621
451
Heralding objects 50126
459
in type she told it that she was guilty 50510
466
249
483
Relative pronouns used as objects 53247
488
537
491
Can maugree grame laudes 556
501
Cognate objects 42224
502
Type The mete þat he fande He dalte it 598603
518
Instrumental objects 425
520
Absolute
525
Type the day I saw her first to die upon the bed my father died 6348
543
646
552
Type I believe him the murderer 64758
553
280
560
Type he slept himself sober with resultative adjunct 659
596
Similarly with indirect and prepositional objects
603
Type She slew him Holofernus
609
Absence of the Object 61244
615
553
620
Type He hine an bigspell ahsode 698
635
Type He bereafedon hine of his life 7012
643
580
649
142
655
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