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Date: 08-Dec-2023
From: Wendy Logeman [wendy.logeman at brill.com]
Subject: An Historical Syntax of the English Language, Vol. I: Visser (2023)


Title: An Historical Syntax of the English Language
Subtitle: Volume I: Syntactical Units with One Verb
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Brill
                http://www.brill.com
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/17837

Author: Frederik Theodor  Visser
Abstract:

Frederik Theodor Visser’s An Historical Syntax of the English
Language, published in four massive volumes between 1963 and 1973, is
certainly one of the cornerstones of research in English linguistics.
Visser’s achievements can hardly be overestimated. Before the advent
of modern corpus linguistics, he compiled a remarkable wealth of
detailed philological data from all periods of English and combined
this with current grammatical analyses of his time. This has made this
publications an indispensable resource for anyone investigating the
history of English syntax.

This reproduction of Visser’s volumes is more than welcome, and
timely, as the volumes have been out of print for quite some time and
were sometimes a little bit difficult to navigate. Having a searchable
and easy-to-use online version, although maybe not perfect, available
now means a revival for scholarship that celebrates its fiftieth
birthday without losing any of its relevance.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Germanic
                      Indo-European

Areal Regions: Western Europe

Written In: English (eng)



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