Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Non-Surviving Preterite-Present Verbs in English: The Demise of *Dugan, Munan, *-Nugan, *ÞUrfan, and Unnan

The Non-Surviving Preterite-Present Verbs in English: The Demise of *Dugan, Munan, *-Nugan, *ÞUrfan, and Unnan

Wojtyś, Anna
Fisiak, Jacek

Hardcover

Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, Book 51

GermanItalianEastern European History

ISBN10: 3631729502
ISBN13: 9783631729502
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Aug 16 2017
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Based on four historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed description of their distribution in Old and Middle English. The subsequent comparison of the forms and uses of the preterite-presents in the two periods allows the author to suggest the reasons for their elimination from the language. The discussion focuses on phonological and morphological changes the verbs underwent as well as on the syntactic structures they appeared in. Yet, the study does not ignore factors of extra-linguistic nature such as genres in which the verbs were frequently found and the potential rivalry with other items of native and foreign origin.

Also from

Fisiak, Jacek

View All

Also in

Italian

View All