A history of English reflexive pronouns: person, self, and interpretability
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1. Verfasser: Gelderen, Elly van (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2000
Schriftenreihe:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 39
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and indexes
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.
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 English texts showing a person split between first, second, and third person pronouns. Extending an analysis by Reinhart & Reuland, the author argues that the 'strength' of certain pronominal features (Case, person, number) differs cross-linguistically and that parametric variation accounts for the
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