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Comparative studies in early Germanic languages : with a focus on verbal categories /
This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
138. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC page ; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Verbal categories and their diachronic development in Old English and Old High German; 2. Grammaticalisation, comparative diachronic linguistics and socio-cultural/philological aspects; 3. Historical comparative corpus studies; 4. The verbal categories studied in this volume; 5. Summary and outlook; References; *haitan in Gothic and Old English; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 2.1 Corpora and data collection; 3. Results.
- 3.1 Functions of Gothic haitan and Old English hātan3.1.1 Gothic; 3.1.2 Early Old English; 3.1.3 Late Old English; 3.1.4 Comparison of Gothic and Early and Late Old English; 3.2 Competitors of haitan in Gothic; 4. Discussion and conclusion; Appendix; Early Old English Texts; Late Old English Texts; References; Incipient Grammaticalisation; 1. Introduction; 2. Problems with the traditional view of an Old High German and Old English passive; 2.1 Old High German; 2.2 Old English; 3. Theoretical considerations for the interpretation of constructions with the past participle in English and German.
- 3.1 The copulas: OHG sīn/wesan and werdan, OE s-copula and weorðan3.2 Past participle; 3.3 Constructions with the past participle; 3.3.1 Constructions with stative copula: Sīn/wesan, s-copula plus past participle; 3.2.2 Constructions with inchoative copula: Werdan/weorðan plus past participle; 4. Considerations about different incipient stages of grammaticalisation of "passive" constructions in Late Old English and Old High German; 5. Conclusion and further research; References; Passive auxiliaries in English and German; 1. Introduction; 2. Previous studies; 2.1 Old English.
- 2.2 Old High German3. A different approach: Constructional environments; 4. Bounded and unbounded language use; 4.1 Status in Present Day English and New High German; 4.2 The bounded system of Old English and its breakdown; 4.3 The bounded system of German and its grammaticalisation; 5. Convergence and divergence in the development of the English and German passive; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Corpora and data; 5.3 Clause type; 5.4 Time adverbs; 5.5 Word order; 6. Conclusion; Refernces; Causative habban in Old English ; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The structure of the paper; 1.2 The construction.