RT Journal Article
T1 Changes in argument structure in Early Modern English with special reference to verbs of DESIRE: a case study of "lust"
A1 Castro Chao, Noelia
AB In Old and Middle English, several verbs of DESIRE could be found in impersonal constructions, a type of morphosyntactic pattern which lacks a subject marked for the nominative case controlling verbal agreement. The impersonal construction began to decrease in frequency between 1400 and 1500 (van der Gaaf 1904; Allen 1995), a development which has been recently investigated from the perspective of the interaction between impersonal verbs and constructional meaning by Trousdale (2008), Möhlig-Falke (2012) and Miura (2015). This paper is concerned specifically with the impersonal verb "lust" (< ME "lusten") as a representative of Levin’s (1993) class of verbs of DESIRE, some of which developed into prepositional verbs in Present-day English. The main aim here is to explore the changes undergone by "lust" during the two centuries after it ceases to appear in impersonal constructions, as well as to reflect upon some of the possible motivations for such changes. The data are retrieved from "Early English Books Online Corpus 1.0", a 525-million-word corpus, and the examples are analysed manually paying attention to the range of complementation patterns documented in Early Modern English (1500–1700).
PB Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus (AELINCO)
SN 2243-4712
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102015
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102015
LA eng
NO Castro Chao, N. «Changes in Argument Structure in Early Modern English with Special Reference to Verbs of DESIRE: A Case Study of Lust». Research in Corpus Linguistics, vol. 7, 2019, pp. 129-54. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.07.07.
NO For generous financial support, I am grateful to the following institutions: the Spanish Ministry of Education (grant FPU2014/03208), the European Regional Development Fund, the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (grant FFI2017-86884-P) and the Regional Government of Galicia (Directorate General for Scientific and Technological Promotion, grants ED431D 2017/09 and ED431B 2017/12).
NO Ministerio de Educación, Formación Profesional y Deportes (España)
NO Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
NO Xunta de Galicia
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025