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- Title: Composite Predicates and Modification Flexibility in Middle English (1).
- Author : revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos Atlantis
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 242 KB
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It has often been stated (Jespersen 1942; Nickel 1968; Live 1973; Brinton and Akimoto 1999) that one of the main factors that has favoured the increasing use of composite predicates in Present Day English has been the flexibility of modification that such structures allow in comparison with simple predicates. It seems to be the case that composite predicates can be more easily modified than simple verbs, since they admit the insertion of an adjectival phrase qualifying its deverbal object. In this paper we analyse whether the above claim, valid for contemporary English, applies to earlier stages of the language, particularly the Middle English period, by carrying out a contrastive analysis of the modification patterns observed in a corpus of composite and simple predicates drawn from the Middle English section of the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts.
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