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Demonstratives in Interaction : Emergence of a Definite Article in Finnish.
This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1997.
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| Colección: | Studies in discourse and grammar ;
7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes and explains the developing use of se based on a database consisting of spoken narratives from three different periods spanning the last one hundred years. The author proposes that the development from demonstrative to article has its roots in the way that speakers ordinarily use demonstratives in conve. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (302 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027275813 9027275815 1283424290 9781283424295 9786613424297 6613424293 |
| ISSN: | 0928-8929 ; |