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9 | (2) |
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11 | (6) |
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11 | (3) |
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14 | (3) |
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2 The function and development of English impersonal constructions |
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17 | (26) |
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2.1 Definition and terminology |
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17 | (7) |
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2.2 From Jespersen (1961[ 1927]) to Allen (1986, 1995) |
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24 | (5) |
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2.3 Trousdale (2008), Mohlig-Falke (2012), Miura (2015) |
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29 | (5) |
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2.4 Overview of impersonal constructions and their structural patterns in earlier English |
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34 | (5) |
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2.4.1 Competing personal patterns |
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37 | (2) |
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2.5 The function of impersonal constructions in earlier English |
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39 | (4) |
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3 The nature of verb meaning and constructional meaning |
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43 | (18) |
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43 | (5) |
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3.2 Constructional meaning and the issue of perspective |
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48 | (7) |
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3.3 The semantic domain of Physical Sensation |
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55 | (1) |
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3.4 The semantic domain of Emotion |
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56 | (5) |
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4 The class of verbs of Desire |
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61 | (18) |
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4.1 Verbs of Desire: Selection |
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63 | (3) |
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4.2 Verbs of Desire in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED) |
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66 | (4) |
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4.3 A fine-grained semantic characterisation of verbs of Desire |
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70 | (5) |
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4.4 The syntactic patterning in PDE of verbs of Desire vs. Psych-verbs |
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75 | (4) |
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79 | (22) |
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79 | (4) |
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5.1.1 Early English Books Online (EEBO) |
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79 | (1) |
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5.1.2 Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) |
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80 | (2) |
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5.1.3 Early English Books Online Corpus 1.0 (EEBOCorp 1.0) |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (4) |
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87 | (4) |
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91 | (10) |
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101 | (34) |
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6.1 Origin and development |
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101 | (3) |
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6.2 Overview of complementation patterns with lust |
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104 | (5) |
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6.2.1 Lust in impersonal patterns |
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104 | (3) |
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6.2.2 Lust in personal patterns |
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107 | (2) |
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6.3 Lust in the EModE period |
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109 | (21) |
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6.3.1 Impersonal patterns in EModE |
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112 | (2) |
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6.3.2 Personal patterns in EModE |
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114 | (3) |
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6.3.2.1 Patterns with clausal complements |
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117 | (6) |
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6.3.2.2 Patterns with zero complements |
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123 | (4) |
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6.3.2.3 Prepositional patterns |
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127 | (2) |
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6.3.2.4 Patterns with NP complements |
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129 | (1) |
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6.4 Summary and conclusions |
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130 | (5) |
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135 | (42) |
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7.1 Origin and development |
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135 | (4) |
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7.2 Overview of complementation patterns with thirst |
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139 | (4) |
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7.2.1 Thirst in impersonal patterns |
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139 | (2) |
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7.2.2 Thirst in personal patterns |
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141 | (2) |
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7.3 Thirst in the EModE period |
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143 | (28) |
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7.3.1 Personal patterns in EModE |
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145 | (5) |
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7.3.1.1 Prepositional patterns |
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150 | (10) |
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7.3.1.2 Patterns with zero complements |
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160 | (6) |
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7.3.1.3 Patterns with NP complements |
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166 | (2) |
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7.3.1.4 Patterns with clausal complements |
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168 | (3) |
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7.4 Summary and conclusions |
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171 | (6) |
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177 | (30) |
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8.1 Origin and development |
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177 | (3) |
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8.2 Overview of complementation patterns with long |
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180 | (6) |
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8.2.1 Long in impersonal patterns |
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180 | (3) |
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8.2.2 Long in personal patterns |
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183 | (3) |
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8.3 Long in the EModE period |
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186 | (18) |
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8.3.1 Personal patterns in EModE |
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187 | (4) |
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8.3.1.1 Prepositional patterns |
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191 | (7) |
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8.3.1.2 Patterns with clausal complements |
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198 | (5) |
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8.3.1.3 Patterns with zero complements |
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203 | (1) |
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8.4 Summary and conclusions |
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204 | (3) |
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9 Discussion and conclusions |
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207 | (22) |
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208 | (3) |
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211 | (1) |
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212 | (2) |
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9.4 Factors I: Loss of impersonal patterns in the history of English |
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214 | (3) |
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9.5 Factors II: Development of impersonal verbs of Desire |
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217 | (4) |
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9.6 Suggestions for further research |
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221 | (8) |
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225 | (2) |
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227 | (2) |
Appendix I List of selected texts from EEBOCorp 1.0: Subperiod 1 (1500-1549) |
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229 | (7) |
Appendix II List of selected texts from EEBOCorp 1.0: Subperiod 2 (1550-1599) |
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236 | (9) |
Appendix III List of selected texts from EEBOCorp 1.0: Subperiod 3 (1600-1649) |
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245 | (9) |
Appendix IV List of selected texts from EEBOCorp 1.0: Subperiod 4 (1650-1700) |
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254 | (9) |
References |
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Index |
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