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A history of English reflexive pronouns : person, self, and interpretability /

This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and Middle...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gelderen, Elly van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 39.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • A HISTORY OF ENGLISH REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Preface; List of tables; Notes for the user and list of abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1. Old English reflexives; Chapter 2. Reflexives in Middle and later English; Chapter 3. Pro-drop and feature strength; Chapter 4. The loss of verbal agreement and verb-movement; Chapter 5. The loss of inherent case; Chapter 6. Ergativity and the person split; Chapter 7. Conclusion; Appendix; References; Name Index; Subject Index; The Series LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY.