Secondary Agent Constructions from a Diachronic Perspective

Authors

KUDRNÁČOVÁ Naděžda

Year of publication 2013
Type Chapter of a book
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The paper traces the emergence of secondary agent constructions (transitive causative constructions with verbs of self-agentive locomotion) in the historical development of English and looks into the factors that underlie their relatively late formation.

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