Journal article
The status of passive constructions in Old English
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In Old English, passive-type constructions involving a copula and a passive participle could be used to express both events and states. Two different types of copula are found in these constructions: weorðan, meaning ‘become’ and wesan and beon, meaning ‘be’. There has been some dispute as to how the meaning of these copulas relates to the meaning of the construction as a whole, in both its eventive and its stative uses, and whether any of these constructions was grammaticalized in the sens...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Transactions of the Philological Society Journal website
- Volume:
- 116
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 59-90
- Publication date:
- 2017-04-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-02-11
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1467-968X
- ISSN:
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0079-1636
- Source identifiers:
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680848
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pubs:680848
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- pubs:680848
- Deposit date:
- 2017-02-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Jones and Macleod
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The authors 2017. Transactions of the Philological Society © The Philological Society 2017. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Wiley at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12101
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