“‘God forbid!’: A Historical Study of the Verb forbid in Different Versions of the English Bible”
Bibliographical details
Iyeiri, Yoko. 2003. “‘God forbid!’: A Historical Study of the Verb forbid in Different Versions of the English Bible”. Journal of English Linguistics 31: 149-62.
Major arguments in this paper have been updated, revised, and incorporated into Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English (John Benjamins, 2010). It is advised to have a look at this more recent publication.
Related publications
- 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)
- Iyeiri, Yoko. 2011. “Early Modern English Prose Selections: Directions in Historical Corpus Linguistics”. Memoirs of the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University 50: 133-199. (Downloadable PDF) — This paper includes an analysis of the complementation of forbid in the Early Modern English period.
- Yoko Iyeiri. 2010. Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
