Playing the Verb: A Literary-Linguistic Perspective on Verb Variation in Early Modern Dutch Prose
Verbs are almost indispensable elements of texts. In the long seventeenth century, a period in which the standards of language were still in flux, they appeared in wide variety, resulting in a type of language variation that has rarely been addressed before: intra-author variation. This dissertation is a collection of four papers that deal with several forms of intra-author variation in verbs from a literary-linguistic perspective. The study argues intra-author variation to be a phenomenon that falls to a large extent in the interface between (socio)linguistics and literary studies. Through th... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Dissertation |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Schlagwörter: | intra-author variation / verbs / D.V. Coornhert / P.C. Hooft / Willemken van Wanray / Michiel de Ruyter / tense-aspect alternation / begin+infinitive / perfect doubling |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28630551 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/416119 |