Agreement from a diachronic perspective / / edited by Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken, Paul Widmer
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Agreement from a diachronic perspective / / edited by Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken, Paul Widmer
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 3-11-039996-2 |
| 3-11-040009-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Tedesco |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788808803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Trends in linguistics. . -Studies and monographs ; ; Volume 287.