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- Title: Let and the "Bare Infinitive": An Exploratory Exercise in Traditional (Notional) Grammar.
- Author : Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 242 KB
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ABSTRACT The present-day English verb let is descended from one of a set of causative verbs in Old English. In part, its history and present-day status are shared with some of these verbs and others that develop as causatives in the course of time; and the general outlines of this history and, in particular, the resultant system will be my concern in [section]2 of this paper. But let shows some idiosyncratic developments compared with these others; and it is these I shall take up in [section]3. These developments depend in part on the results of the history outlined in [section]2, but they also involve an idiomatisation that throws some interesting light on the interaction of syntax and lexicon in syntactic change. All of this is of some interest in our assessment of the goals of grammar.
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