Expanded tenses in the old English orosius a syntactic strengthening*
The present chapter reports the investigation into certain aspects of the periphrastic construction to be +present participle (e.g. NE: "he is teaching"; OE. "he is laerende") viewed as an example of a syntactic strengthening. The construc tion is usually referred to as "c...
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
1990-12-01
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| Series: | Linguistica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/5265 |