Full Description
Locating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive in main clauses, noun clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses. It explores the factors which governed its competition with other verbal expressions in texts ranging from the 9th to the beginning of the 18th century. Employing close reading alongside analysis of corpus data and the use of descriptive statistics, it offers new insights into the research landscape of English subjunctive use and into the fields of historical English linguistics and corpus linguistics.
Contents
List of Tables; List of FiguresChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The subjunctive in main clausesChapter 3. The subjunctive in adjectival relative clausesChapter 4. The subjunctive in noun clausesChapter 5: The subjunctive in adverbial clausesChapter 6. A bird's eye view of the English subjunctiveEpilogue: Summary and outlookAppendix I: Matrix verbs of Old English object clausesAppendix II: Matrix verbs of Middle English object clausesAppendix III: Matrix verbs of Early Modern English object clausesReferences
