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Title: The history of the present English subjunctive: a corpus-based study of mood and modality
Creators: Moessner Lilo
Collection: Электронные книги зарубежных издательств; Общая коллекция
Subjects: English language — Mood.; English language — Modality.; English language — Subjunctive.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; EBSCO eBooks
Document type: Other
File type: PDF
Language: English
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Record key: on1176328086

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Locating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive in main clauses, noun clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses in the Old English, Middle English and Early Modern English periods.

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Table of Contents

  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The subjunctive in main clauses
  • 3 The subjunctive in adjectival relative clauses
  • 4 The subjunctive in noun clauses
  • 5 The subjunctive in adverbial clauses
  • 6 A bird’s eye view of the English subjunctive
  • Epilogue Summary and outlook
  • Appendix I Matrix verbs of Old English object clauses
  • Appendix II Matrix verbs of Middle English object clauses
  • Appendix III Matrix verbs of Early Modern English object clauses
  • References
  • Name index
  • General index

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