Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax

Know about the book -

Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax is written by Claudia Claridge and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027262470 (ISBN 10) and 9789027262479 (ISBN 13).

Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological marking, periphrastic verbal constructions, auxiliary variation and evolution, as well as changing word order options. Favouring corpus-linguistic, frequency-based and statistical approaches, the studies are firmly empirically grounded. The book is aimed at scholars interested in the history of the English language and in language variation and change.