Review of Castro-Chao, Noelia. 2021. Argument Structure in Flux: The Development of Impersonal Constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with Special Reference to Verbs of Desire. Bern: Peter Lang.

ISBN: 978-3-034-34189-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b17694

Keywords: argument structure, impersonal construction, verbs of desire

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Published
2022-05-14
How to Cite
Miura, A. (2022). Review of Castro-Chao, Noelia. 2021. Argument Structure in Flux: The Development of Impersonal Constructions in Middle and Early Modern English, with Special Reference to Verbs of Desire. Bern: Peter Lang . Research in Corpus Linguistics, 10(1), 213-227. https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.10.01.12