TY - JOUR A1 - Bratko-Makaran, Maciej T1 - The easy-to-please construction in Middle English T2 - Uniwersytet Rzeszowski: Zeszyty naukowe Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego / Seria filologiczna / Studia anglica Resoviensia N2 - 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. KW - Englisch KW - Mittelenglisch KW - Verb KW - Sprachwandel KW - Infinitiv Y1 - 2011 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32469 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-324692 UR - http://www.ur.edu.pl/wydzialy/filologiczny/instytut-filologii-angielskiej/studia-anglica-resoviensia/archive SN - 1641-7666 VL - 8 IS - 69/2011 SP - 299 EP - 310 PB - Wydawn. Uniw. Rzeszowskiego CY - Rzeszów ER -