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Subject‐Object Asymmetries and the Development of Relative Clauses between Late Middle English and Early Modern English.

This paper presents the results of a corpus study on the Wycliffe Bible and the King James Bible, examining the distribution of the pronouns who(m)/which and the complementiser that in relative clauses with a personal referent. The data indicate that the decisive factor in both periods was the funct...

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Published in:Transactions of the Philological Society Vol. 122; no. 2; pp. 308 - 327
Main Author: Bacskai‐Atkari, Julia
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2024
Subjects:
King James Bible
Relative clauses
Asymmetry (Linguistics)
English language
Noun phrases
Pronouns
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