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This research investigates the historical development of 'do-support' in English, focusing on its grammaticalization and semantic changes. By analyzing historical texts and comparing them with similar constructions in other languages, the project aims to uncover the evolution of this linguistic feature.
This project will tackle an old and much debated topic in historical English: the origin of English do-support (DS).
The new approach is within an interdisciplinary framework of language change and grammaticalisation, and views language as composed of constructions, the process driven by the pragmatics.
The focus is the tipping point between the construction as semantically compositional, and the later stages where it is predominantly idiomatic.
This research is underpinned by widespread evidenc…
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