A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles
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A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

Volume 5, Syntax (fourth volume)

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eBook - ePub

A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

Volume 5, Syntax (fourth volume)

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This book was first published in 1954, A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781135664633
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Index

A.

a + verbal stem (a-flutter) 6.75.
able with passive inf. 20.11.
about, with inf. 14.21, with gerund 14.22.
"Absolute construction" ch. VI, see Nexus-tertiary.
"Accusative with infinitive" 18.11.
accustom 16.24.
act, in a. to 16.45.
Action-nouns, see Nexus-substantive.
Active sense of nexus-subst. 7.71ff., of gerund 9.22, of second pple 22.53.
Adjective, specialization 1.22, in nexus-tertiary 6.71-2, as S of gerund 9.45, with to-inf. as O 13.61, with inf. of specification 17.22, in -ble with subject 22.17, relation to first pple 22.4, to second pple 22.57.
Adjunct, instead of nexus 4.7, with nexus-subst. 7.8, with gerund 8.34, inf. as, 15.1, inf. adjunct relation to is to 15.17.
Adnex 1.42.
Adverb, as P in nexus-tertiary 6.73, with nexus-subst. 7.82, compounded with gerund 8.62, before gerund + O without of 9.37.
afford 13.41.
after with simple nexus 5.3, eonj. 21.24.
against, conj., 21.24.
Agent-nouns 22.11ff., adj. 22.15ff.
ago 6.83.
agree 13.42.
ain't 23.17, 23.19, 23.21.
albeit 21.48.
all, with gerund 9.45, concessive 21.48, negatived 23.71ff.
allow 18.31.
although 21.43f.
always negatived 23.71ff.
and loosely with nexus 6.85; with inf. 13.7; expressing consequence 21.51; with a negative inf. 23.44. — and (an) = 'if' 21.54.
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. PREFACE
  5. Contents
  6. ADDITIONS TO LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  7. I. Introductory
  8. II. Simple Nexus as Ordinary Object
  9. III. Simple Nexus as Object of Result
  10. IV. Various Remarks on Nexus-Objects
  11. V. Simple Nexus as Regimen of a Preposition
  12. VI. A Simple Nexus as Tertiary
  13. VII. Nexus-Substantives
  14. VIII. The Gerund. Substantive Nature
  15. IX. The Gerund. Verbal Nature
  16. X. The Infinitive
  17. XI. The Infinitive. Subject and Predicative
  18. XII. Infinitive as Object
  19. XIII. To-Infinitive as Object
  20. XIV. Infinitive Governed by Prepositions
  21. XV. The Infinitive as Secondary
  22. XVI. The Infinitive as Tertiary
  23. XVII. Infinitives of Reaction and Specification
  24. XVIII. Subject + Infinitive as Object of Main Verb
  25. XIX. Subject + Infinitive in Other Employments
  26. XX. Final Remarks on Infinitives
  27. XXI. Clauses as Tertiaries
  28. XXII. Implied Dependent Nexus
  29. XXIII. Negation
  30. XXIV. Requests
  31. XXV. Questions
  32. Index