24.598, Books: Spreading Patterns: de Smet

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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:40:45
From: Zach Borenstein [zach.borenstein at oup.com]
Subject: Spreading Patterns: de Smet

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Title: Spreading Patterns 
Subtitle: Diffusional Change in the English System of Complementation 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in the History of English  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/TheEnglishLanguage/?view=usa&ci=9780199812752 

Author: Hendrik de Smet

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199812752 Pages: 304 Price: U.S. $ 74.00

Abstract:

Spreading Patterns examines how new constructions emerge and spread through
the grammar of a language, in a process called "diffusion". This is done by
tracking the development of three types of complements from the Middle English
period to the present day. These are subject-controlled gerund complements,
for...to-infinitives, and subject-controlled participial complements. In the
first half of the book, De Smet focuses on how and why patterns diffuse. In
the second half, which is largely corpus-based, De Smet tests his theoretical
model of diffusion on the three complement types. His work demonstrates how
diffusion interacts with the grammatical system of complementation, how
diffusion proceeds, step-by-step, and why diffusion is directional.

Spreading Patterns will appeal to scholars and advanced students of English,
history of English, and historical linguistics.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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