{"product_id":"composite-predicates-in-late-modern-english-9781032524887","title":"Composite Predicates in Late Modern English","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides a concise overview of the diachronic development of composite predicates (CPs) in Late Modern English, offering clearer evidence of ongoing language change using data less readily available in other corpora.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile previous scholarship on CPs exists from a synchronic perspective, this book is the first to focus exclusively on Late Modern English with a diachronic approach to CPs, understood as phraseological verbs consisting of a verb and a deverbal noun or this combination with a preposition, such as\u003cem\u003e to ask a question\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eto take hold of\u003c\/em\u003e. The volume builds on  real-life spoken data encompassing the proceedings of the Old Bailey at the Central Criminal Court in London, which predate the invention of audio-recording technology. Leone explores syntactic and semantic changes and the role performed by phenomena associated with grammaticalization, lexicalization and idiomatization in this period from both quantitative and qualitat\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019102716247,"sku":"9781032524887","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032524887.jpg?v=1750779309","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/composite-predicates-in-late-modern-english-9781032524887","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}