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The author has published widely on syntactic and semantic questions of the English verb, mainly of the Old English period, and the present study accordingly draws on a large number of her previous articles as well as her monograph Verbs in Medieval English (1995). This could be one of the reasons for the book's descriptivism: while the investigation is extremely detailed in the presentation of quotations from a large, non-machine-readable corpus of mainly Old English texts and in the classification of types, it is, in my view, less convincing in its theoretical approach and the use of explanatory parameters. Sometimes the detailed statistics taken from previous work have not sufficiently been functionalised as parts of arguments concerning the language system and/or the history of Old and Middle English. Thus the book shies away from raising questions in addition to the observations made, such as: "Why are verbs of motion often intransitive? Why and exactly in what cases do they go with to have and when with to be? What are the criteria of their idiomatisation?" The other weakness is the book's widespread failure to attribute observations to the overall historical development of th
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- Author
- Manfred Markus
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2005
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)