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Article: A "two-way relationship in English" revisited: on reciprocal expressions in early English, with a digression into Modern English uses.(Linguistics)
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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ABSTRACT
The present study aims at providing a survey of the earliest English developments of reciprocal expressions, from the Old English discontinuous expressions, in which the elements are separated from each other by other sentence elements, to the present-day tight units like each other or one another. The data have been retrieved from several computerized text corpora. It comes out clearly that the reciprocal pronouns consist of two separate elements and their syntactic behaviour is regulated by such factors as the existence or non-existence of prepositions or other adverbial elements, word-order, function in the sentence and metre. The early expressions ...
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