TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christoph Anton Xaver Hauf
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-088X
SN  - 9783631854648
TI  - Verbs of Speaking and the Linguistic Expression of Communication in the History of English
DO  - 10.3726/b18414
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1137125
N2  - English verbs of speaking have been affected by profound and intriguing changes, in particular between Old and Middle English. These changes crucially involve the loss of the verb cweþan and its replacement by say, which remains the most common verb of speaking to this day. The present study provides an exhaustive corpus-based, cross-period, and multi-dimensional appraisal of verbs of speaking used as part of the linguistic expression of communication in the history of English situated within a frame-semantic and constructionist framework. Moreover, it elucidates the fascinating changes affecting the verbs used to talk about communication between Old and Middle English. Also, this study sheds light on the functions of medially placed reporting clauses emerging in the Middle English period.
KW  - construction grammar, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, Old English, Middle English, frame semantics
LA  - English
ER  -