Book contents
- Late Modern English Syntax
- Series page
- Late Modern English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Data sources (corpora)
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Late Modern English syntax in its linguistic and socio-historical context
- Part I Changes in the VP
- Part II Changes in the NP
- Part III Changes in complementation patterns
- Part IV Category change
- 11 Opposite developments in composite predicate constructions: the case oftake advantage ofandmake use of
- 12 Constrained confusion: the gerund/participle distinction in Late Modern English
- 13 ‘You are a bit of a sneak’: exploring a degree modifier in the Old Bailey Corpus
- Part V The syntax–pragmatics interface
- Part VI Text-type related change
- Part VII Language contact and syntactic change
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
11 - Opposite developments in composite predicate constructions: the case oftake advantage ofandmake use of
from Part IV - Category change
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Book contents
- Late Modern English Syntax
- Series page
- Late Modern English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Data sources (corpora)
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Late Modern English syntax in its linguistic and socio-historical context
- Part I Changes in the VP
- Part II Changes in the NP
- Part III Changes in complementation patterns
- Part IV Category change
- 11 Opposite developments in composite predicate constructions: the case oftake advantage ofandmake use of
- 12 Constrained confusion: the gerund/participle distinction in Late Modern English
- 13 ‘You are a bit of a sneak’: exploring a degree modifier in the Old Bailey Corpus
- Part V The syntax–pragmatics interface
- Part VI Text-type related change
- Part VII Language contact and syntactic change
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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- Late Modern English Syntax , pp. 207 - 223Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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