Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a Focus on Verbal Categories - Couverture rigide

 
9789027206053: Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a Focus on Verbal Categories
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ISBN 10 : 9027206058 ISBN 13 : 9789027206053
Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2013

Synopsis

This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they descended from a common ancestor language, the contributions present in-depth, empirically founded studies on the stages and directions of these changes combining historical comparative methods with grammaticalisation theory. This collection of papers provides the reader with an indispensable source of information on the early traces of distinct developments, thus laying the foundation for a broad-scale scenario of the grammaticalisation of verbal categories. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of language change, grammaticalisation, and diachronic sociolinguistics; it offers important new insights for typologists and for everybody interested in the make-up of verbal categories.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they descended from a common ancestor language, the contributions present in-depth, empirically founded studies on the stages and directions of these changes combining historical comparative methods with grammaticalisation theory. This collection of papers provides the reader with an indispensable source of information on the early traces of distinct developments, thus laying the foundation for a broad-scale scenario of the grammaticalisation of verbal categories. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of language change, grammaticalisation, and diachronic sociolinguistics; it offers important new insights for typologists and for everybody interested in the make-up of verbal categories.

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Éditeur
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9027206058
ISBN 13 
9789027206053
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
324
Éditeur
Diewald Gabriele, Kahlas-Tarkka Leena, Wischer Ilse
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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