Description
| Summary: | This comprehensive case study of a systematic shift in object expression provides insight into the construal of a class of two-place activity verbs in the history of French and proposes that a change in the prepositional system underlies the shift. The book focuses on nineteen verbs of helping and hindering whose single internal object shifts from indirect to direct object during the 15th and 16th century. It describes how these verbs are distinguished from all other verbs that take indirect ...
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (223 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9781443850117
144385011X
9781443845670
1443845671 |
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| Language: | English. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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