Definiteness in Bulgarian : Modelling the Processes of Language Change.
In its evolution from a synthetic to an analytic language, Bulgarian acquired a grammaticalized category of definiteness. The book presents the first attempt to explore in detail how this happened by comparing the earliest Modern Bulgarian texts with contemporary dialect and standard Bulgarian data....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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Colección: | Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs, v. 182.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In its evolution from a synthetic to an analytic language, Bulgarian acquired a grammaticalized category of definiteness. The book presents the first attempt to explore in detail how this happened by comparing the earliest Modern Bulgarian texts with contemporary dialect and standard Bulgarian data. The basic units of analysis are the various types of nominal structures headed by nouns or pronouns. The analysis requires the strict terminological disentanglement of form from content and the adoption of a default inheritance model of definiteness that allow the exhaustive classification and tagg. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (484 pages) |
ISBN: | 9783110198898 3110198894 |