Composite Predicates and idiomatisation in Middle English: a Corpus-based approach (1).(Statistical Data Included)

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

0. Introduction

The idiomatic nature of Composite Predicates (2) in Present Day English has often been acknowledged (see, for instance, Algeo 1995: 205). It has been argued that in earlier stages of the language Composite Predicates were more variable than they are today (Brinton - Akimoto 1999: 16-17), as can be observed in the studies on this topic in Middle English (Matsumoto 1999: 92; Tanabe 1999: 123).

The present paper aims to study the degree of fixation of Composite Predicate structures with the verb to make used in Middle English, on the basis of ...

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