Open AccessThe progress of a syntactic change English do-support*
Author(s) -
Andrej Snedec
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.134
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2350-420X
pISSN - 0024-3922
DOI - 10.4312/linguistica.30.1.47-68
Subject(s) - interrogative , linguistics , psychology , philosophy
The English construction with do-support in the affirmative form, in the interrogative form, in the declarative-negative form, and in the interrogative-negative form is a periphrastic construction. It satisfied the definition of a strengthened construction as long as it was an optional replacement of the corresponding non-strengthened construction, i.e. of forms without do-support.