Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The principal focus of this book concerns various shifts of complements which verbs of implicit negation (e.g. forbid , forbear , avoid , prohibit , and prevent ) have experienced in the history of English. Forbid , for example, was once followed by that -clauses, while in contemporary English it is in usual cases followed by to -infinitives except in the fixed form God forbid that … Although a number of E