Predications in Competition and the Rise of Serial Verb Constructions in English: The Verbal and Nominal Complementation of Old English Aspectual and (Hardcover)

Contents ? Acknowledgements ? Introduction ? Rationale - Linking semantics to syntax in a structural-functional theory - Toward an RRG analysis of Old English - Method, sources and data - The complementation of Old English aspectual verbs - The complementation of Old English manipulative verbs ? Competition - Complementation and the rise of serial verb constructions in English ? Conclusions ? References ? Appendices - Index