Причини виникнення залежних дієприкметникових конструкцій в англійській мові

Abstract

It has long been assumed that dependent participial constructions were borrowed from Latin during the Norman Conquest. The study proves that the mentioned constructions are autochthonic in English as well as other Indo-European languages. It is argued that, being non-finite clauses, dependent participial constructions appeared in English through the reduction of finite subbordincite clauses, for the evidence of Old English texts shows their synchronic June Honing with preference of non-finite clauses.