Word Order in 17th Century English: A Study of the Stabilisation of the XSV PatternNovus, 2003 - 220 pages |
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THE INFORMATION STRUCTURE OF SENTENCE ELEMENTS | 85 |
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0001 period II-III 17th century adjuncts affirmative declarative appearance or existence AUX inversion Bækken cf section clause combined complex verb phrases conjuncts dominate Early Modern English exemplified following p values given elements given subject gives the following GOSJ I-II initial direct objects initial non-negative adverbials initial subject predicatives intransitive and linking intransitive verbs inversion types JELG late texts linking verbs longitudinal development LTJC negative initial elements nominal subjects occur order in structures passive structures pattern period I-III periphrastic postverbally prepositional phrases present data pronominal subjects pronouns rate of inversion sentence adverbials shows the following significant decrease significantly more frequent simple and complex simple verb phrases structures with initial structures with simple structures with transitive three periods three types types of initial types of verb typically verbs of appearance verbs period VP inversion WCDD WCIN word orders WWBB XSV and XVS XVS orders gives XVS structures