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Bækken, B.: Some aspects of 17th century English grammar
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Bjørg Bækken is Professor Emerita at the Department of Foreign
Languages at the University of Bergen
Contents
Introduction 9
Chapter 1
Initial adverbial clauses 13
Introduction 13
The data 15
Structures with one initial adverbial clause 17
Finite clauses 17
Clauses of time 20; Clauses of reason 21; Clauses of condition 23,
Clauses of concession 24; Clauses of purpose 25; Clauses of manner and comparison 26; Clauses of place 27; Wh-clauses 27; Comment clauses 28; Miscellaneous 30
Non-finite clauses 30
Infinitive clauses 32; -ing clauses 33; -ed clauses 35; Non-finite clauses with their own subject 36
Structures with two or more initial adverbials, at least one clause 38
Structures with two or more initial adverbial clauses 38
Structures where the first clause is finite 39; Structures where the first clause is non-finite 43; Non-finite clauses with their own subject 47
Structures with one or more initial adverbial clauses combined with non-clausal initial adverbials 48
Structures where the first clause is finite 49; Dislocation 53; Structures where the first clause is non-finite 61; Non-finite clauses with their own subject 65
Summary and concluding remarks 67
Abbreviations 69; References 69
Chapter 2
Conjuncts 71
Introduction 71
Conjuncts 72
Results 77
Conjuncts in the different categories 81
List of conjuncts 83
Conclusion 85
Abbreviations 86; References 86
Chapter 3
The noun phrase 87
Introduction 87
Data and selection procedures 89
Results 94
Simple noun phrases 96
Simple noun phrases consisting of head only 96; Simple noun phrases consisting of head + determiner 100; Determiners in simple noun phrases (ie determiner + head only) 100; Determiners in the corpus
as a whole 103
Complex noun phrases 105
Noun phrases with premodifiers 107; Noun phrases with postmodifiers 110; Noun phrases with pre- and postmodifiers 117
Concatenation and embedding 118
Different types of complement 120
Direct objects + non-finite structures 122
The different text categories 124
Summary and concluding remarks 130
Abbreviations 132; Source texts 133; Text codes 135; References 136
Appendix 137
Primary Texts 137; Text codes 143
ISBN 978-82-7099-732-9, 145 pp., paperback
Format: 17x24 cm, weight 0,3 kg, year of publication 2013, language: English
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