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Genitive Case in Dutch and German
A Study of Morphosyntactic Change in Codified Languages
Av Alan Scott
Inbunden, 2013
2593 kr
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In The Genitive Case in Dutch and German: A Study of Morphosyntactic Change in Codified Languages, Alan K. Scott offers an account of the tension that exists between morphosyntactic change and codification, focusing on the effect that codification has had on the genitive case and alternative …
Experiential Constructions in Latin
Inbunden, 2014
2324 kr
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This volume is about the morphosyntactic encoding of feelings and emotions in Latin. It offers a corpus-based investigation of the Latin data, benefiting from insights of the functional and typological approach to language. Chiara Fedriani describes a patterned variation in Latin Experiential …
Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics
Inbunden, 2013
2217 kr
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In Methods in Latin Computational Linguistics, Barbara McGillivray presents some of the most significant methodological foundations of the emerging field of Latin Computational Linguistics. The reader will find an overview of the computational resources and tools available for Latin and three …
Reconstructing Syntax
Inbunden, 2020
2324 kr
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During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: …
New Directions for Historical Linguistics
Av Hans C. Boas
Inbunden, 2019
1432 kr
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This volume consists of revised versions of presentations given at a roundtable on “New Directions for Historical Linguistics: Impact and Synthesis, 50 Years Later” held at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in San Antonio, Texas, in 2017, as well as an introduction by the …
Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change
Have- and Be-Perfects in the History and Structure of English and Bulgarian
Inbunden, 2019
2284 kr
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In Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change: Have- and Be-Perfects in the History and Structure of English and Bulgarian, Bozhil Hristov investigates key aspects of the verbal systems of two distantly related Indo-European languages, highlighting similarities as well as …
History of the Reinforced Demonstrative in Nordic
Regional Variation and Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2020
2714 kr
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The task of reconstructing the reinforced demonstrative paradigm for early Nordic has been called “impossible” by the eminent Einar Haugen. In The History of the Reinforced Demonstrative in Nordic, Eric T. Lander aims to accomplish exactly this, by way of an exhaustive study of the pronoun’s …
Old English Case System
Case and Argument Structure Constructions
Inbunden, 2021
2955 kr
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The Old English Case System. Case and Argument Structure Constructions by Kirsten Middeke is a Construction Grammar account of Old English argument structure that integrates modern cognitive corpus linguistics and traditional philological work. This is the first major study on Old English …
Diachrony of Definiteness in North Germanic
Av Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2459 kr
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This book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in Danish, Swedish and Icelandic, as documented in a choice of extant texts from 1200-1550. These three North Germanic languages show different development patterns in the rise of articles, despite the common origin, but each …
Diachrony of Written Language Contact
A Contrastive Approach
Inbunden, 2021
2499 kr
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Nobody can deny that an account of grammatical change that takes written contact into consideration is a significant challenge for any theoretical perspective. Written contact of earlier periods or from a diachronic perspective mainly refers to contact through translation. The present book includes …
Ancient Indo-European Languages between Linguistics and Philology
Contact, Variation, and Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2022
2485 kr
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Studying the Indo-European languages means having a privileged viewpoint on diachronic language change, because of their relative wealth of documentation, which spans over more than three millennia with almost no interruption, and their cultural position that they have enjoyed in human history.The …
Studying Language Change in the 21st Century
Theory and Methodologies
Inbunden, 2022
2593 kr
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The volume brings together contributions by scholars working in different theoretical frameworks interested in systematic explanation of language change and the interrelation between current linguistic theories and modern analytical tools and methodology; the integrative basis of all work included …
Cangin Languages
Phonological and Morphological Reconstruction and Diachrony
Inbunden, 2023
2147 kr
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The Cangin languages of Senegal remained hidden from linguists for years, and have only recently been seriously documented. This book traces the history of the Cangin languages, and presents a reconstruction of Proto-Cangin through careful application of historical linguistic methods. This is one …
Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization
Volume 1: Functional Change
Inbunden, 2023
2576 kr
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Meaning change in grammaticalization has been variously described in terms of decreasing semantic weight and increasing generality, abstraction, (inter)subjectivity or discourse orientation. The author shows that all these trends are subsumed by the notion of scope increase along a precise …
Diachrony of Ditransitives in Late Modern Swedish
Inbunden, 2024
2038 kr
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This book presents the first major study of ditransitives in Swedish. Using a combination of well-established and innovative corpus-based methods, the book reveals considerable changes in the constructional behaviour of ditransitive verbs over the course of the last 200 years. The key finding is …
Fragments of Languages
From ‘Restsprachen’ to Contemporary Endangered Languages
Inbunden, 2024
1763 kr
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The book deals with the concept of fragmentation as applied to languages and their documentation. It focuses in particular on the theoretical and methodological consequences of such a fragmentation for the linguistic analysis and interpretation of texts and, hence, for the reconstruction of …
Giving Gifts and doing Favours
Literary Classical Attic Greek Support-Verb Constructions
Inbunden, 2025
2828 kr
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Support-verb constructions, like 'to make a suggestion' and 'to take heart',are an integral, enriching, and natural part of the classical Greek lexicon-grammar rather than stylistic, register-related, or redundant as often claimed, yet they remain a pain in the neck even 20 years after Sag's …
Rethinking Syntactic Boundaries in Old Norse
Syntactic Variation and Information Structure in Old Norwegian
Inbunden, 2025
1388 kr
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What if Old Norwegian syntax diverged from Old Icelandic earlier than previously assumed? Discover the hidden dynamics of Old Norwegian syntax in this groundbreaking volume that challenges the long-held view that Old Norwegian and Old Icelandic can, on a syntactic level, be treated uniformly under …
