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...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Körperschaft: International Conference on English Historical Linguistics Pécs, Hungary
Weitere Verfasser: Diewald, Gabriele (HerausgeberIn), Kahlas-Tarkka, Leena (HerausgeberIn), Wischer, Ilse, 1959- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch Tagungsbericht E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in language companion series ; 138.
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Zusammenfassung: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 descended from a common ancestor language, the contributions present in-depth, empirically founded studies on the stages and directions of these changes combining historical comparative methods with grammaticalisation theory. This collection of papers provides the reader with an indispensable source of information on the early traces of distinct developments, thus laying the foundation for a broad-scale scenario of grammaticalisation of verbal categories. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of language change, grammaticalisation, and diachronic sociolinguistics; it offers important new insights for typologists and for everybody interested in the make-up of verbal categories.
Beschreibung:This publication comprises the papers presented at a workshop on the "Contrastive study of the verbal categories and their grammaticalisation in Old English and Old High German" held at the 16th ICEHL in Pécs, Hungary, in August 2010.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (page cm)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027271457
9027271453

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Volltext öffnen