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A history of English reflexive pronouns : person, self, and interpretability /
This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and Middle...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2000.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 39. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and Middle English texts showing a person split between first, second, and third person pronouns. Extending an analysis by Reinhart & Reuland, the author argues that the 'strength' of certain pronominal features (Case, person, number) differs cross-linguistically and that parametric variation accounts for the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027299178 902729917X 9781556199882 1556199880 9789027227607 9027227608 128216337X 9781282163379 |