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Title: | Dialectal variation and diachronic development of try-complementation |
Author(s): | Ross, Daniel |
Subject(s): | Linguistics
English Historical Linguistics Syntax Complementation try Pseudocoordination Grammaticalization Dialectal variation |
Abstract: | English try can select a wide range of verbal complementation patterns, especially when dialectal variation is considered. This article presents an overview of these complement types. The goals are threefold: first, to present the variant forms with examples, citing previous literature; second, to establish a timeline for the development of verbal complementation with try, with a focus on the pseudocoordination pattern; and third, to consider variants found in modern dialects. Although this work is descriptive in nature rather than theoretical, the data presented here have implications for syntactic theory and future research and also establish a foundation for comparison with other languages. |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Citation Info: | Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers 2013: 108-147 |
Genre: | Article |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/46461 |
ISSN: | 0049-2388 |
Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
Peer Reviewed: | is peer reviewed |
Rights Information: | Copyright © 2013 Daniel Ross |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2013-12-29 |
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