The easy-to-please construction in Middle English

  • The aim of this article is to follow the changes that took place in the history of easy-to-please constructions. To fully apprehend that, we will begin by looking at Middle English infinitives and the change which affected them. Our attempt here is to prove that Early Middle English to was at its intermediate stage of development, i.e. it was neither a preposition nor inflection. In Late Middle English, to reached its final stage of a gradual evolution heading TR On account of the analysis of to and infinitives in Middle English, new constructions in which easv-to-please appear will be explained.

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Author:Maciej Bratko-Makaran
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-324692
URL:http://www.ur.edu.pl/wydzialy/filologiczny/instytut-filologii-angielskiej/studia-anglica-resoviensia/archive
ISSN:1641-7666
Parent Title (English):Uniwersytet Rzeszowski: Zeszyty naukowe Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego / Seria filologiczna / Studia anglica Resoviensia
Publisher:Wydawn. Uniw. Rzeszowskiego
Place of publication:Rzeszów
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2013/12/02
Year of first Publication:2011
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2013/12/02
Tag:Infinitiv; Sprachwandel
GND Keyword:Englisch; Mittelenglisch; Verb
Volume:8
Issue:69/2011
Page Number:12
First Page:299
Last Page:310
HeBIS-PPN:36334439X
Institutes:Extern / Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) Mannheim
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht