Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English
Edited by Laurel J. Brinton and Minoji Akimoto
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 47] 1999. xiv, 283 pp.
Minoji Akimoto
List of John Benjamins publications for which Minoji Akimoto plays a role.
Title
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax
Articles
2010 On the idiomatization of “give + O + to” constructions English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008., Lenker, Ursula, Judith Huber and Robert Mailhammer (eds.), pp. 79–94 | Chapter
This paper discusses the idiomatization process of the “give + O + to” construction (e.g. give rise to and give way to). Investigation of this construction from Middle English to Present-Day English based on various corpora shows that, in the process of change of “give + indirect object + direct… read more
2008 Rivalry among the verbs of wanting English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dury, Richard, Maurizio Gotti and Marina Dossena (eds.), pp. 117–138 | Article
This paper discusses rivalry amongst the verbs of wanting, e.g., desire, hope, want and wish. Investigation of these verbs from Middle English to present-day English based on various corpora shows that the functional and semantic expansion and reduction of these verbs during these periods have… read more
2002 Two types of passivization of ‘V+NP+P’ constructions in relation to idiomatization English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000, Fanego, Teresa, Javier Pérez-Guerra and María José López-Couso (eds.), pp. 9–22 | Article
2001 How far has far from become grammaticalized? Historical Linguistics 1999: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9–13 August 1999, Brinton, Laurel J. (ed.), pp. 1–11 | Article
2000 The grammaticalization of the verb ‘pray’ Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 67–84 | Article
1999 Chapter 7: Collocations and Idioms in Late Modern English Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English, Brinton, Laurel J. and Minoji Akimoto (eds.), pp. 207 ff. | Chapter
1999 Chapter 2: The Origin of the Composite Predicate in Old English Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English, Brinton, Laurel J. and Minoji Akimoto (eds.), pp. 21 ff. | Chapter
1999 Chapter 1: Introduction Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English, Brinton, Laurel J. and Minoji Akimoto (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Chapter