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



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Titolo: Agreement from a diachronic perspective / / edited by Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken, Paul Widmer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
Disciplina: 415
Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Agreement
Historical linguistics
Soggetto non controllato: Agreement
Diachrony
Persona (resp. second.): FleischerJürg
RiekenElisabeth
WidmerPaul
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Agreement from a diachronic perspective  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-11-039996-2
3-11-040009-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
Record Nr.: 9910788808803321
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Serie: Trends in linguistics. . -Studies and monographs ; ; Volume 287.