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Dialectal variation and diachronic development of try-complementation

Ross, Daniel

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Title
Dialectal variation and diachronic development of try-complementation
Author(s)
Ross, Daniel
Issue Date
2013
Keyword(s)
  • Linguistics
  • English
  • Historical Linguistics
  • Syntax
  • Complementation
  • try
  • Pseudocoordination
  • Grammaticalization
  • Dialectal variation
Abstract
English try can select a wide range of verbal complementation patterns, especially when dialectal variation is considered. This article presents an overview of these complement types. The goals are threefold: first, to present the variant forms with examples, citing previous literature; second, to establish a timeline for the development of verbal complementation with try, with a focus on the pseudocoordination pattern; and third, to consider variants found in modern dialects. Although this work is descriptive in nature rather than theoretical, the data presented here have implications for syntactic theory and future research and also establish a foundation for comparison with other languages.
Publisher
Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0049-2388
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright © 2013 Daniel Ross

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