Comparative studies in early Germanic languages : with a focus on verbal categories /

Comparative studies in early Germanic languages : with a focus on verbal categories /

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Meeting name:	International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (16th : 2010 : Pécs, Hungary)
Imprint:	Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Description:	vi, 318 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in language companion series (SLCS) ; volume 138 Studies in language companion series ; v. 138.
Subject:	English language -- Grammar, Comparative. English language -- Grammar, Historical. Germanic languages -- Grammar, Comparative. Germanic languages -- Grammar, Historical. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization. English language -- Grammar, Comparative. English language -- Grammar, Historical. Germanic languages -- Grammar, Comparative. Germanic languages -- Grammar, Historical. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9751488

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Other authors / contributors:	Diewald, Gabriele, editor of compilation. Kahlas-Tarkka, Leena, editor of compilation. Wischer, Ilse, 1959- editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9789027206053 (hb : alk. paper) 9027206058 (hb : alk. paper) 9789027271457 (eb)
Notes:	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. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.

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Call Number:	PE1075 .I57 2010
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