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- Title
Competition in the Complementation of Old English Control Verbs with Oblique Marking: A Corpus Analysis.
- Authors
Ojanguren López, Ana Elvira
- Abstract
The aim of this article is to explain the syntactic competition found in the complementation of Old English Prevent verbs. The competition on argumenthood involves linked verbal predications and linked nominal predications. Evidence is gathered for continuity both between finite and non-finite linked verbal predications as well as between non-finite and nominalised linked predications. This evidence points to a diachronic development: finite clause > non-finite clause > nominalisation. The main conclusion of the article is that the Interclausal Relation Hierarchy predicts the replacement of the finite clause complementation with non-finite clause complementation in such a way that the syntactically tighter noun phrase involving a deverbal nominalisation constitutes the next step of syntactic development.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language; VERBS; NOUN phrases (Grammar); CORPORA
- Publication
Languages, 2024, Vol 9, Issue 3, p86
- ISSN
2226-471X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/languages9030086