A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles: Volume 5, Syntax (fourth volume)

by Jespersen,Otto

• ISBN13: 9780415402538
• ISBN10: 0415402530
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book was first published in 1954.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Additions to List of Abbreviations	p. xiv
Introductory	p. 1
Grammatical system
Nexus as object
Simple Nexus as Ordinary Object	p. 9
Simple Nexus as Object of Result	p. 18
After verbs denoting the production of a result
After other verbs
Border cases
Various Remarks on Nexus-Objects	p. 29
Nexus-object after of
Case in a simple nexus as object
Word-order in nexus-objects
Split object
Incomplete nexus-object
Split subject
Simple nexus as subject or predicative
Simple Nexus as Regimen of a Preposition	p. 38
After with
After other prepositions
A Simple Nexus as Tertiary	p. 45
Analysis
Case
First participle
Second participle
Perfect participle
Being with the second participle
Having been
Adjective
Adverb or prepositional group
Condensed constructions
Meaning of nexus-tertiaries
Combinations with and
Incomplete nexus
Nexus-Substantives	p. 65
Form and function
Both S and O
One primary
Secondaries and tertiaries
Appendix
The Gerund. Substantive Nature	p. 86
Introductory
Substantial nature of the gerund
Object of the gerund
Subject of the gerund
Genitive (possessive)
Subject with of
Subject with by
Subject or object?
Compounds
The Gerund. Verbal Nature	p. 108
Tertiaries
Tense. Active or passive
Object after gerund without of
Subject not in the genitive (possessive)
Common case
Personal pronouns
There
Various remarks
Grammatical analysis
The Infinitive	p. 150
Introductory
Bare infinitive and to
The Infinitive. Subject and Predicative	p. 162
Infinitive as Object	p. 169
Lesser verbs with bare infinitive
Dare
Need
Had better
Rather than
Go where he will
To-Infinitive as Object	p. 192
Various verbs
Have to
Infinitive as object of substantives and adjectives
And
Infinitive Governed by Prepositions	p. 212
The Infinitive as Secondary	p. 217
The infinitive as adjunct
Retroactive infinitive
Is to with retroactive and non-retroactive infinitive
The Infinitive as Tertiary	p. 239
Infinitive of direction
Infinitive of purpose
Speaker's parenthesis
Transition to the infinitive of result
Infinitive of result
Providential purpose
Infinitives of Reaction and Specification	p. 259
Infinitive of reaction
Infinitive of specification
Retroactive and passive
Subject + Infinitive as Object of Main Verb	p. 277
Accusative with infinitive
Immediate perception
Mental perception
Affirmation, etc.
Emotion
Permission
Wish and request
Causarion
Word-order
Split infinitival object
Incomplete infinitival nexus-objects
Infinitive and that-clause
Subject + infinitive after verbal phrase
Extension of the prepositional construction
Subject + Infinitive in Other Employments	p. 306
As subject or predicative. Split subject with infinitive
With a passive verb
With an active verb
There
Subject + infinitive forming a tertiary
Final Remarks on Infinitives	p. 322
Passive
Isolated infinitive
Historical infinitive
Infinitive of deprecation
To separated from infinitive ("split infinitive")
Latent infinitive
Clauses as Tertiaries	p. 341
Introductory
Independence. Place
Time
Comparison
Contrast. Contradiction
Condition
Subclasses under conditional clauses. Comparison + condition
Cause, reason, motive
Implied Dependent Nexus	p. 399
Agent-nouns, substantives and adjectives
First participle
Second participle
Negation	p. 426
General history
What is negatived
Negative attraction
Double or cumulative negation
The meaning of negation
Requests	p. 467
Imperative. Person
Relation to infinitive
Pseudo-imperative
Questions	p. 480
Nexus-questions and x-questions
Pronouns. Question strengthened. Interrogative adverbs
Double questions
Incomplete questions. Exclamations. Pseudo-questions
Formal signs of questions
Do
General survey
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