The Verbal Group
Historical Linguistics and the History of English - A Systemic Function Approach - Michael Cummings
Michael Cummings [+]
York University, Toronto.
Michael Cummings is Professor emeritus and Senior Scholar in the English Department of York University, Toronto. His research interests include Systemic Functional linguistic approaches to discourse and lexico-grammar in Old English and modern English.
Description
The same short historical texts help reveal that verbal groups and verbal group complexes change greatly in both systems and structures through each of their respective historical stages. The direction of change in the stages is always from the relatively simple to the relatively complicated.