A Corpus-based Approach of Indefinite Relative Pronoun Whatever: from Old English to Early Modern English
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the indefinite relative pronoun whatever using the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts. The variants of whatever can be distinguished into three general groups: swa…swa, …se and …(so)ever. The usages of the form swa…swa were mostly observed in the Old English period and gradually declined during the Middle English period when they were replaced by the form …se. The form …se was not used for a long time and the form …ever appeared from the late Middle English period. The variants of whatever were mostly treated as a pronoun, adjective and adverb. Among them, this paper focuses on the pronoun and adjective with indefinite relative sense. Leading the indefinite relative clause, the word whatever as a direct object appeared most frequently in the Old English and Middle English period and as a subject in the Early Modern English period
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the indefinite relative pronoun whatever using the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts. The variants of whatever can be distinguished into three general groups: swa…swa, …se and …(so)ever. The usages of the form swa…swa were mostly observed in the Old English period and gradually declined during the Middle English period when they were replaced by the form …se. The form …se was not used for a long time and the form …ever appeared from the late Middle English period. The variants of whatever were mostly treated as a pronoun, adjective and adverb. Among them, this paper focuses on the pronoun and adjective with indefinite relative sense. Leading the indefinite relative clause, the word whatever as a direct object appeared most frequently in the Old English and Middle English period and as a subject in the Early Modern English period
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