03115nam 2200541 450 991080824100332120200520144314.03-11-053941-13-11-054105-X10.1515/9783110541052(CKB)4100000004244546(MiAaPQ)EBC5158897(DE-B1597)480203(OCoLC)1037981360(DE-B1597)9783110541052(Au-PeEL)EBL5158897(CaPaEBR)ebr11566992(EXLCZ)99410000000424454620180614d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierArticle emergence in Old English a constructionalist perspective /Lotte SommererBerlin ;Boston :De Gruyter,[2018]©20181 online resource (376 pages)Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ;993-11-053937-3 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 -- IndexThis 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-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. English languageWord formationAnalogy.Articles.Constructionalization.Definiteness.Nominal Determination.English languageWord formation.422Sommerer Lotte1695209MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808241003321Article emergence in Old English4074292UNINA