LEADER 04460nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910807382203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-71488-0 010 $a9786612714887 010 $a3-11-022035-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110220353 035 $a(CKB)2550000000012866 035 $a(EBL)511896 035 $a(OCoLC)615622320 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413541 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11269990 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413541 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10380979 035 $a(PQKB)11040426 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC511896 035 $a(DE-B1597)36777 035 $a(OCoLC)1002222139 035 $a(OCoLC)1004872558 035 $a(OCoLC)1011439821 035 $a(OCoLC)987921958 035 $a(OCoLC)992454349 035 $a(OCoLC)999367486 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110220353 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL511896 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10373588 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL271488 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000012866 100 $a20091208d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCardinal numerals $eOld English from a cross-linguistic perspective /$fby Ferdinand von Mengden 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York, NY $cMouton de Gruyter$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 225 1 $aTopics in English linguistics ;$v67 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-022034-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tTable of contents -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter I. Linguistic numeral systems -- $tChapter II. The numeral system of Old English -- $tChapter III. Complex numerals -- $tChapter IV. Numeral constructions in Old English -- $tChapter V. The word class 'cardinal numeral' -- $tConcluding remarks -- $t Backmatter 330 $aThe book embeds a description and an analysis of the Old English numeral system into a broader, cross-linguistic discussion. It provides a theoretical framework for the study of numerals and numeral systems of natural languages, bridging the gap between recent findings in the cognitive sciences on numeracy and the known typological generalisations on cardinal numerals. The Old English numeral system shows a number of peculiarities not found in the present-day languages of Europe. Its detailed description is therefore an ideal locus for studying the features of linguistic number expressions in terms of their morpho-syntactic properties and of the structure of numeral systems.The approach is innovative in that it combines a detailed analysis of the numeral system with the analysis of the grammatical properties of cardinal numerals. For the description of Old English, the study focuses on aspects of information structure and of referent identification in quantificational constructions. This leads to a novel perspective on the language-internal variation in the agreement patterns between numerals and quantified nouns, allowing the author to test and refine some long standing tenets in the study of numerals and to offer alternative explanations. Rather than seeing numerals as a hybrid word class, the author argues that this variation in the morpho-syntactic behaviour follows identifiable patterns specific to the word class numeral. He accounts for these patterns by positing different, cross-linguistically uniform stages in the emergence of numeral systems, as well as varying degrees of discreteness of the quantified noun. Moreover, the author demonstrates that the constraints determining this variation in Old English have obvious parallels across languages. 410 0$aTopics in English linguistics ;$v67. 606 $aEnglish language$yOld English, ca. 450-1100$xNumerals 606 $aCardinal numbers 606 $aNumeration 606 $aComparative linguistics 606 $aHistorical linguistics 615 0$aEnglish language$xNumerals. 615 0$aCardinal numbers. 615 0$aNumeration. 615 0$aComparative linguistics. 615 0$aHistorical linguistics. 676 $a429/.5 686 $aHE 447$2rvk 700 $aMengden$b Ferdinand von$01633715 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807382203321 996 $aCardinal numerals$93973597 997 $aUNINA