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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822505403321

Titolo

Walking on the grammaticalization path of the definite article : functional main and side roads / / edited by Renata Szczepaniak, Johanna Flick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2020

ISBN

90-272-6156-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages)

Collana

Studies in language variation ; ; Volume 23

Disciplina

435.5

Soggetti

German language - Definiteness

German language - Grammaticalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

A complex grammaticalization scenario for the definite article : the 17 interplay of different article forms / Eva Schlachter -- The grammaticalization of the definite article in German : from demonstratives to weak definites / Ulrike Demske -- What genericity reveals about the establishment of the definite determiner in German / Svetlana Petrova -- The role of the definite article in the rise of the German framing principle : a comparative study of verbal and nominal constructions in the Old High German Muspilli and the Old English Dream of the rood / Elke Ronneberger-Sibold -- Cliticization of definite articles to prepositions in Middle High German : early stages of grammaticalization? A qualitative study / Sandra Waldenberger -- Absence as evidence : determination and coordination ellipsis in conjoined noun phrases in (early) New High German / Antje Dammel -- The rise of the onymic article in Early New High German : areal factors and the triggering effect of bynames / Mirjam Schmuck -- Die Capital--der Astra--das Adler : the emergence of a classifier system for proper names in German / Damaris Nübling.

Sommario/riassunto

"This volume focuses on the grammaticalization of the definite article in German. It contains eight empirically-based papers which examine individual stages of the grammaticalization path from its beginnings as a demonstrative to the definite article and beyond. Focusing on



cognitive, pragmatic, semantic and syntactic factors, the contributions not only address the development from pragmatic to semantic definiteness, but also pertain to functional and formal changes starting as soon as the linguistic unit has acquired the function of marking semantic definiteness. Based on corpora spanning the entire history of the German language, from Old High German (750-1050) to present-day German, the analyses challenge the traditional linear model of grammaticalization and provide alternative pathways. What all the contributions have in common is the idea that the main grammaticalization path is accompanied or crossed by several side roads which lead to different destinations such as preposition-article-clitics, generic usages or onymic articles"--

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Record Nr.

UNISA996203926903316

Titolo

Popular plastics & packaging

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bombay, : Colour Publications

Bombay : , : Colour Publications, , 1989-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

668.405

Soggetti

Plastics

Packaging

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from cover.

Sommario/riassunto

esents information for plastics processors and users, including news on raw materials, and feedstock, processing machinery, packaging, dies and moulds, instrumentation, polymers and petrochemicals.