Comparative studies in early Germanic languages
- 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 the 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.
| ISBN: | 978-90272-0605-3 |
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| Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Studies language companion series ; 138 |
| Untertitel (Englisch): | with a focus on verbal categories |
| Verlag: | Benjamins Publishing |
| Verlagsort: | Amsterdam |
| Herausgeber*in(nen): | Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Ilse Wischer |
| Publikationstyp: | Monographie/Sammelband |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
| Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 11.01.2016 |
| Seitenanzahl: | 318 |
| Organisationseinheiten: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
| DDC-Klassifikation: | 4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch |
