Author: Museo Di Roma
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-05-08
Total Pages: 729
ISBN-13: 900453136X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Frederik Theodor Visser's An Historical Syntax of the English Language, published in four massive volumes between 1963 and 1973, is certainly one of the cornerstones of research in English linguistics. Visser's achievements can hardly be overestimated. Before the advent of modern corpus linguistics, he compiled a remarkable wealth of detailed philological data from all periods of English and combined this with current grammatical analyses of his time. This has made this publications an indispensable resource for anyone investigating the history of English syntax. This reproduction of Visser's volumes is more than welcome, and timely, as the volumes have been out of print for quite some time and were sometimes a little bit difficult to navigate. Having a searchable and easy-to-use online version, although maybe not perfect, available now means a revival for scholarship that celebrates its fiftieth birthday without losing any of its relevance.
Author: Herbert Wilfred Sugden
Publisher:
Published: 1936
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tauno F. Mustanoja
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2016-08-18
Total Pages: 702
ISBN-13: 9027266387
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For a good orientation into the history of English grammar, several books are indispensable. One of those is Mustanoja’s A Middle English Syntax. However, for a long time this work was not readily available; the present edition changes that. This is a fac simile reprint from the 1960 publication which appeared as volume XXIII in ‘Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki’, with a new Introduction by Elly van Gelderen. Compared to Old English, Middle English has fewer grammars and textbooks devoted to it. This book provides an interesting supplement by going deeper into certain questions and, especially, into exceptions. The book points out differences with Old English and certain peculiarities of the Middle English system. It was originally written for students of Middle English literature but serves a linguist well in detailed descriptions of the parts of speech, the use of the various cases, gender, and number. Word order, complex sentences, and conjunctions were meant to be dealt with in a second volume, which was never published.
Author: Fredericus Theodorus Visser
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 742
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eugen Kölbing
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 522
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Zeitschrift für englische Philologie" (varies slightly).