The history of the present English subjunctive a corpus-based study of mood and modality
Locating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive in main clauses, noun clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses in the Old English, Middle English and Early Modern English periods.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The subjunctive in main clauses
- 3 The subjunctive in adjectival relative clauses
- 4 The subjunctive in noun clauses
- 5 The subjunctive in adverbial clauses
- 6 A bird's eye view of the English subjunctive
- Epilogue Summary and outlook
- Appendix I Matrix verbs of Old English object clauses
- Appendix II Matrix verbs of Middle English object clauses
- Appendix III Matrix verbs of Early Modern English object clauses
- References
- Name index
- General index