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UNINA9910466778303321 |
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Sommerer Lotte |
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Article emergence in Old English : a constructionalist perspective / / Lotte Sommerer |
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Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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3-11-053941-1 |
3-11-054105-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 pages) |
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Collana |
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Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; ; 99 |
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English language - Word formation |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nominal determination and the articles in Present Day English -- 3. Article emergence in Old English -- 4. Diachronic Construction Grammar -- 5. Nominal determination in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- 6. Nominal determination in Old English prose -- 7. Article emergence: a constructional scenario -- 8. Conclusion -- 9. Appendix: manuscript and corpus information -- References -- Index |
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This book investigates nominal determination in Old English and the emergence of the definite and the indefinite article. Analyzing Old English prose texts, it discusses the nature of linguistic categorization and argues that a usage-based, cognitive, constructionalist approach best explains when, how and why the article category developed. It is shown that the development of the OE demonstrative 'se' (that) and the OE numeral 'an' (one) should not be told as a story of two individual, grammaticalizing morphemes, but must be reconceptualized in constructional terms. The emergence of the morphological category 'article' follows from constructional changes in the linguistic networks of OE speakers and especially from 'grammatical constructionalization' (i.e. the emergence of a new, schematic, mostly procedural form- |
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meaning pairing which previously did not exist in the constructicon). Next to other functional-cognitive reasons, the book especially highlights analogy and frequency effects as driving forces of linguistic change. |
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UNINA9910789047703321 |
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Milton John |
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Areopagitica [[electronic resource] ] : A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England |
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Auckland, : The Floating Press, 2009 |
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1 online resource (79 p.) |
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Copyright law |
Freedom of the press -- Early works to 1800 |
Freedom of the press -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800 |
Freedom of the press -- Great Britain |
Freedom of the press |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Areopagitica: A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England is John Milton's famous tract against censorship. Published in 1644, Areopagitica is named after a speech by Isocrates, a fifth century BC Athenian orator. The work is counted as one of the most influential and inspired defenses of the right to freedom of expression in history. It is also a personal issue for Milton who was submitted to censorship himself when he tried to publish... |
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