EAN: 9783039117635

THE DEVELOPMENT FROM CASE-FORMS TO PREPOSITIONA...

The development from a synthetic to an analytic language is one of the most important topics in
English historical syntax. This development is reflected in the gradual decrease of case-forms
and the replacement of their functions with equivalent prepositional constructions. Focussing
on the Old English period  when case-forms and prepositional constructions overlapped in
various functions  this book aims to answer an unresolved question: was there a significant
change in the use of case-forms and  alternatively  in the use of prepositions plus case-forms
in contexts where both types were possible? The author makes a statistical comparison between
prose texts written in the early Old English period and texts of the later Old English period 
she also takes into account stylistic features of individual texts. Thus  this book addresses
this Old English syntactic issue both from a historical and a stylistic perspective and shows
the stages of development during the Old English period.

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