Causative habban in Old English: Tracing the Development of a Budding Construction

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    The construction studied in this article represents indirect passive causation (cf. the corresponding Present-Day English construction of the type I had my shoes repaired. The entire habban material found in the Dictionary of Old English Corpus yields 19 (20) causative habban instances. After a look at the diachronic and dialectal breakdown of the data, the discussion focuses on syntactic and semantic features of the construction. The article concludes with a discussion of the origin of the construction.
    Originalspråkengelska
    Titel på värdpublikationComparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages : With a focus on verbal categories
    RedaktörerGabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer
    Antal sidor25
    UtgivningsortAmsterdam
    FörlagJohn Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia
    Utgivningsdatum2013
    Sidor101-125
    ISBN (tryckt)9789027206053
    ISBN (elektroniskt) 9789027271457
    StatusPublicerad - 2013
    MoE-publikationstypA4 Artikel i en konferenspublikation
    EvenemangInternational Conference on English Historical Linguistics - Pécs, Ungern
    Varaktighet: 1 jan. 1800 → …
    Konferensnummer: 16

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    NamnStudies in language companion
    Nummer138

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