Make Peace and Take Victory

by Patricia Ronan

This corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions may be employed to create periphrastic verbal expressions to denote concepts for which no simple verb exists in the language at that stage. This latter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8776746321
• ISBN13: 9788776746322
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Southern Denmark
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 10.36 lbs.