“Causative Make and its Infinitival Complements in Early Modern English”.
Bibliographical details
Iyeiri, Yoko. 2018. “Causative Make and its Infinitival Complements in Early Modern English”, in Explorations in English Historical Syntax, ed. Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Liesbet Heyvaert and Charlotte Maekelberghe, pp. 139-157. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Based on EMEPS (Early Modern English Prose Selections), this paper discusses the complementation patterns of causative make, particularly the rise of bare infinitives in the history of English. In the first half of the 16th century, to-infinitives were still commoner than bare infinitives, while in the second half of the same century, bare infinitives were more frequent. The choice of the infinitival form depends on various linguistic conditions, which is also explored in this paper.
Related publications
- Iyeiri, Yoko. 2012. “The Complements of Causative make in Late Middle English”, in Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A Multi-dimensional Approach, ed. Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger, & Emil Chamson, pp. 59-73. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Iyeiri, Yoko. 2011. “Early Modern English Prose Selections: Directions in Historical Corpus Linguistics”. Memoirs of the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University 50: 133-199.
