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Nominal determination : typology, context constraints, and historical emergence /
Three different nominal word orders in Old English through present-day English are investigated, in order to determine whether English has an 'adjectival' possessive similar to Modern Italian. It is argued that the orders a) demonstrative, possessive, noun and b) possessive, demonstrative,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 89. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Three different nominal word orders in Old English through present-day English are investigated, in order to determine whether English has an 'adjectival' possessive similar to Modern Italian. It is argued that the orders a) demonstrative, possessive, noun and b) possessive, demonstrative, noun represent different syntactic constructions, with different paths of development. It is concluded that the a) order represents three different constructions: i) apposition, ii) a possible 'adjectival' possessive, no longer found in Middle English, iii) an Early Modern English focus construction using th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 369 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027292100 9027292108 1282152750 9781282152755 9786612152757 6612152753 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |