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SHIBASAKI Reijirou
Department Undergraduate School , School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences Position Professor |
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| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2012/11 |
| Type | Book Chapter Paper |
| Peer Review | Peer reviewed |
| Title | "Please tilt me-ward by return of post: On the vicissitude of a marginal pronominal construction in the history of English" (John Benjamins) |
| Contribution Type | Sole-authored |
| Journal | English Historical Linguistics 2010 (John Benjamins, CILT 325) |
| Journal Type | Another Country |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Responsible for | pp. 289-309 |
| Author and coauthor | Irén Hegedűs & Alexandra Fodor (eds.) |
| Details | This study is aimed to probe into one type of pronominal word formation such as me-ward, us-ward, you-ward, thee-ward, him-ward, her-ward and them-ward, including all of their variant forms. Although having been used for a prolonged period of time from the early 13th century, they have gone unnoticed in English historical linguistics. The ward(s) construction started with locative adverbs as the head of the construction, expanding the range of the headwords to prepositions, proper and identifiable nouns, pronouns, and nonce words. While all the constructional examples except the pronoun-ward(s) construction are relatively productive and stable albeit being jocular and ad hoc at times, the pronoun-ward(s) construction with any grammatical person has been fairly infrequent throughout history. |
| ISBN | 978-9027248435 |
| URL for researchmap | https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/681069781 |