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The noun phrase in romance and germanic : structure, variation, and change /

One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring langua...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sleeman, Antonia Petronella, Perridon, Harry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2011.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 171.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; The noun phrase in Germanic and Romance; Part I. Variation; Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic nominalizations; What all happens when a universal quantifier combines with an interrogative DP; Micro-diversity in Dutch interrogative DPs; Noun phrase structure and movement; A unified structure for Scandinavian DPs; A semantic approach to noun phrase structure and the definite
  • indefinite distinction in Germanic and Romance; Definite determiners in two English-based creoles.