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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Definiteness: expression and content; 3. The diachronic model of definiteness; 4. Language variation and textology; 5. Definiteness in the dialects; 6. Bulgarian definiteness in a Balkan context; 7. Concluding remarks; 8. Maps; 9. Note on language data treatment; Backmatter.