The development of the würde + infinitive construction in Early Modern German (1650–1800)

This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of the evolution of the würde + infinitive construction in German during the Early Modern period (1650– 1800), using newly available data from the GerManC-corpus. We demonstrate how this construction occupies a unique position orthogonal to both the tense...

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Main Authors: Durrell, Martin, Whitt, Richard J.
Format: Article
Published: de Gruyter 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37445/