“Early Modern English Prose Selections: Directions in Historical Corpus Linguistics”.

This paper consists of two parts: the first and major part describes the corpus Early Modern English Prose selections (EMEPS) together with some discussion on the recent trend in corpus linguistics, and the second part includes a case study based on EMEPS. The case study discusses the historical shift of the complementation patterns of the verb forbid in English, with a focus on the Early Modern English period. It demonstrates a gradual decline of that-clauses and the rise of to-infinitives and -ing constructions in the period under construction.

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• Iyeiri, Yoko. 2017. “Recent Changes in the Use of the Verb forbid“. Memoirs of the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University 56: 195-218. (Downloadable PDF)
• Yoko Iyeiri. 2010. Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.