Middle English Verbs of Emotion and Impersonal Constructions:Verb Meaning and Syntax in Diachrony

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With a careful use of dictionary materials and modern linguistic approaches, this book investigates why some Middle English verbs of emotion are attested in impersonal constructions while others are not, even though they look almost synonymous. A range of factors are identified that affected their behaviour.

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Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of tables; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Aims of the book; 1.2 Definitions of ’impersonals’ in previous studies; 1.3 Issues to be addressed; 1.4 Outline of the book; 2 Theoretical and methodological considerations; 2.1 Positive and negative evidence for studying the syntax of a historical language; 2.2 Case studies of near-synonymous verbs in early English; 2.3 Semantic roles: Descriptive adequacy; 2.4 Event structure of psych-verbs in modern languages; 2.5 Summary: Organisational framework of the main data analysis; 3 Verbs of emotion and the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary; 3.1 Limiting the field of investigation; 3.2 The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED); 3.3 Problems with using the HTOED; 4 Old and Middle English impersonal verbs of emotion: Analysis from dictionary meanings; 4.1 Initial processes of list-compiling; 4.2 Pleasure/enjoyment; 4.3 Mental pain/suffering; 4.4 Anger; 4.5 Hatred/enmity; 4.6 Pity/compassion; 4.7 Humility; 4.8 Fear; 4.9 Summary: Regularities across semantic categories?; 5 Semantic distinctions between impersonal and non-impersonal verbs of emotion: Evidence from entries in the Middle English Dictionary; 5.1 Choice of corpora: Using the MED entries as a database; 5.2 Factors to examine revisited; 5.3 Verbs of Fear; 5.4 Verbs of Anger; 5.5 Verbs of Pity/compassion; 5.6 Verbs of Humility; 5.7 Verbs of Hatred/enmity; 5.8 Verbs of Pleasure/enjoyment; 5.9 Verbs of Mental pain/suffering; 5.10 Other verbs of emotion; 5.11 Summing up; 6 Concluding remarks; 6.1 Transitivity of impersonal verbs of emotion revisited; 6.2 Constellations of properties in diachrony; 6.3 Correlation with psychological definitions and classifications of ’emotion’; 6.4 Topics for further research; References

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Middle English Verbs of Emotion and Impersonal Constructions:Verb Meaning and Syntax in Diachrony（Oxford Studies in the History of English） 情绪中级英语动词与客观解释: 动词含义与历时分析句法 普通语言学

Middle English Verbs of Emotion and Impersonal Constructions:Verb Meaning and Syntax in Diachrony（Oxford Studies in the History of English）

情绪中级英语动词与客观解释: 动词含义与历时分析句法
普通语言学