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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... verb love in the indicative , in which he throws some light on the formation of the subjunctive ( 1763 : 46-47 ) : In the Plural Number of the Verb , there is no variation of ending to express the different Persons ; and the three ...
... verb love in the indicative , in which he throws some light on the formation of the subjunctive ( 1763 : 46-47 ) : In the Plural Number of the Verb , there is no variation of ending to express the different Persons ; and the three ...
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... verb . The next two most frequent collocations with the first person are with the verbs vinden ' find ' and denken ... verb is negated , the verb itself is negated . In Negative - raising , however , the parenthetical verb is itself not ...
... verb . The next two most frequent collocations with the first person are with the verbs vinden ' find ' and denken ... verb is negated , the verb itself is negated . In Negative - raising , however , the parenthetical verb is itself not ...
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... verb do [ 2 ] relating back to a previous VP , viz . fixast on sæ [ 1 ] . ModE allows pro - verb do to stand in for action verbs as well as " involuntary process predications ” ( Quirk et al . 1985 : § 12.25 ) , and the same is true of ...
... verb do [ 2 ] relating back to a previous VP , viz . fixast on sæ [ 1 ] . ModE allows pro - verb do to stand in for action verbs as well as " involuntary process predications ” ( Quirk et al . 1985 : § 12.25 ) , and the same is true of ...
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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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