“When That Wounds Are Evil Healed”: Revisiting Pleonastic That in Early English Medical Writing
The origin of pleonastic that can be traced back to Old English, where it could appear in syntactic constructions consisting of a preposition + a demonstrative pronoun (i.e., for py pat, for pæm pe) or a subordinator (i.e., op pat). The diffusion of this pleonastic form is an Early Middle English de...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017-03-01
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| Series: | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2017-0001 |