The Be/Have variation with intransitive
verbs during the Restoration period
Linnéa Jonsson, 730320
D exam paper 10p
Supervisors: Mats Rydén, Merja Kytö
University of Uppsala, Department of English 1996
Table of contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Presentation of the be/have paradigm
1.2 Background literature
2 Aim
2.1 Method
2.2 Examples excluded from the statistics
3 The corpus
3.1 The comedies
3.2 The diaries
3.3 The letters
4 Overall survey of the data
4.1 Results
4.1.1 Resolve, engage and agree: the problem of classifying ambiguity
4.2 The factors examined
4.2.1 The -ing form (ING)
4.2.2 The perfect infinitive (PI) and modal auxiliaries (MOD)
4.2.3 The past perfect (PAST)
4.2.4 Adverbs stressing recent action or recent result of action (REC)
4.2.5 The negative (NEG)
4.2.6 Conditional contexts (COND)
4.3 Verbs with more than 10 occurrences
4.3.1 Become
4.3.2 Come
4.3.3 Fall
4.3.4 Get
4.3.5 Go
4.3.6 Grow
4.3.7 Pass
4.3.8 Return
5 Conclusion
Appendix A: The editors' comments on the editions of texts
Appendix B: List of verbs
Tables:
Table 1. Number of examples per 100,000 words
Table 2. The text types and authors
Table 3. Diachronic development
Table 4. The factors
Bibliography
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