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Titolo |
Agreement from a diachronic perspective / / edited by Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken, Paul Widmer |
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Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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3-11-039996-2 |
3-11-040009-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (364 p.) |
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Collana |
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Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; Volume 287 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Grammar, Comparative and general - Agreement |
Historical linguistics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The contents of the present volume will enhance our understanding of the diachrony of agreement systems and provide a useful starting point |
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