Tracing English Through Time: Explorations in Language Variation : in Honour of Herbert Schendl on the Occasion of His 65th BirthdayUte Smit |
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... object relations with an English dependent is interesting , because syntactic relations between verbs and their object complements are clearly ' close ' . That objects are more frequently switched than subjects , however , is a fairly ...
... object relations with an English dependent is interesting , because syntactic relations between verbs and their object complements are clearly ' close ' . That objects are more frequently switched than subjects , however , is a fairly ...
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... Object ellipsis . The most crucial difference to ModE , however , concerns ellipsis of the object , which was lost post - OE . In this type ( see example 4 ) , the object of gestadolode [ 2 ] is understood from the object of the ...
... Object ellipsis . The most crucial difference to ModE , however , concerns ellipsis of the object , which was lost post - OE . In this type ( see example 4 ) , the object of gestadolode [ 2 ] is understood from the object of the ...
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... object ellipsis is characterised by Mitchell ( 1985 : § 1575 ) as a major pattern , viz . “ that in which the direct object is expressed with the first verb only - rightly described by Ohlander ( p.113 ) as ' the normal way in OE ...
... object ellipsis is characterised by Mitchell ( 1985 : § 1575 ) as a major pattern , viz . “ that in which the direct object is expressed with the first verb only - rightly described by Ohlander ( p.113 ) as ' the normal way in OE ...
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Robert Lowth and the use of the inflectional subjunctive | 1 |
Alexander Gills account of northern speech | 17 |
Is this doable? Tracing the expression | 33 |
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