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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816554303321

Titolo

Agreement from a diachronic perspective / / edited by Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken, Paul Widmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-039996-2

3-11-040009-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; Volume 287

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Agreement

Historical linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Editors’ preface -- Contents -- Introduction: the diachrony of agreement -- Exploring diachronic universals of agreement: alignment patterns and zero marking across person categories -- The transformation of verb agreement into epistemic marking: evidence from Tibeto-Burman -- How to make a comitative preposition agree it-with its external argument: Songhay and the typology of conjunction and agreement -- The impact of morphology on change in agreement systems -- Pronominal gender agreement: a salience-based competition -- Person-marked quantifiers in Kinyarwanda -- Degrees of Agreement in Old Irish -- Hybrid nouns and their complexity -- When friends and teachers become hybrids (even more than they were) -- Between feminine and neuter, between semantic and pragmatic gender: hybrid names in German dialects and in Luxembourgish -- Gender agreement in 19th- and 20th-century Icelandic -- One plus one make(s) – what? -- Agreement patterns of coordinations in Hittite -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects

Sommario/riassunto

The contents of the present volume will enhance our understanding of the diachrony of agreement systems and provide a useful starting point



for future studies on this both fascinating and intricate field of research.