Publication: The demise of the being to V construction
The demise of the being to V construction
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Hundt, M. (2014). The demise of the being to V construction. Transactions of the Philological Society, 112(2), 167–187. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12035
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This paper revisits a construction that is rare in historical data, namely the combination of being with an infinitive, as in They being to arrive early that afternoon, all necessary preparations had been made. In early and late Modern English, the BE TO construction had a fuller paradigm than it does in Present Day English, where it is (almost) exclusively used in tensed forms. The focus in this paper is on part of the paradigm of the BE TO construction, i.e., instances with a present participle form of be. Relevant neighbouring con
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- Hundt, Marianne
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Hundt, M. (2014). The demise of the being to V construction. Transactions of the Philological Society, 112(2), 167–187. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12035