Comparative studies in early Germanic languages : with a focus on verbal categories / / edited by Gabriele Diewald, Leibniz University Hannover ; Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, University of Helsinki ; Ilse Wischer, University of Potsdam

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Disciplina: 429/.56
• Soggetto topico: English language - Grammar, Comparative; English language - Grammar, Historical; Germanic languages - Grammar, Comparative; Germanic languages - Grammar, Historical; Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammaticalization
• Altri autori: DiewaldGabriele Kahlas-TarkkaLeena WischerIlse <1959->
• Note generali: This publication comprises the papers presented at a workshop on the "Contrastive study of the verbal categories and their grammaticalisation in Old English and Old High German" held at the 16th ICEHL in Pécs, Hungary, in August 2010.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Verbal categories and their diachronic development in Old English and Old High German; 2. Grammaticalisation, comparative diachronic linguistics and socio-cultural/philological aspects; 3. Historical comparative corpus studies; 4. The verbal categories studied in this volume; 5. Summary and outlook; References; *haitan in Gothic and Old English; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 2.1 Corpora and data collection; 3. Results ; 3.1 Functions of Gothic haitan and Old English hātan3.1.1 Gothic; 3.1.2 Early Old English; 3.1.3 Late Old English; 3.1.4 Comparison of Gothic and Early and Late Old English; 3.2 Competitors of haitan in Gothic; 4. Discussion and conclusion; Appendix; Early Old English Texts; Late Old English Texts; References; Incipient Grammaticalisation; 1. Introduction; 2. Problems with the traditional view of an Old High German and Old English passive; 2.1 Old High German; 2.2 Old English; 3. Theoretical considerations for the interpretation of constructions with the past participle in English and German ; 3.1 The copulas: OHG sīn/wesan and werdan, OE s-copula and weorðan3.2 Past participle; 3.3 Constructions with the past participle; 3.3.1 Constructions with stative copula: Sīn/wesan, s-copula plus past participle; 3.2.2 Constructions with inchoative copula: Werdan/weorðan plus past participle; 4. Considerations about different incipient stages of grammaticalisation of "passive" constructions in Late Old English and Old High German; 5. Conclusion and further research; References; Passive auxiliaries in English and German; 1. Introduction; 2. Previous studies; 2.1 Old English ; 2.2 Old High German3. A different approach: Constructional environments; 4. Bounded and unbounded language use; 4.1 Status in Present Day English and New High German; 4.2 The bounded system of Old English and its breakdown; 4.3 The bounded system of German and its grammaticalisation; 5. Convergence and divergence in the development of the English and German passive; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Corpora and data; 5.3 Clause type; 5.4 Time adverbs; 5.5 Word order; 6. Conclusion; References; Causative habban in Old English; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The structure of the paper; 1.2 The construction ; 1.3 The corpus studied 1.4 The causative habban instances; 1.5 Previous studies; 2. Discussion; 2.1 Diachronic and dialectal breakdown; 2.2 Syntactic properties of causative habban constructions; 2.3 Semantic properties of causative habban constructions; 2.4 An analysis of the OE instances listed as causative in Section 1.3; 2.5 A hypothesis concerning the rise of causative habban; 2.6 The triggering of the grammaticalisation process: the rise of causative habban in the light of Diewald's context-sensitive grammaticalisation scenario; 3. Final remarks; References; Remembering ( ge)munan ; 1. Introduction
• Sommario/riassunto: The theory of language change has in recent years increased its explanatory repertoire by pointing out the role of language contact in determining which paths of development are entered and followed under specified conditions. In particular, language shifting - as unmonitored second language learning - is recognized as a powerful mechanism for introducing new verbal categories into language systems as well as leading to the loss of verbal categories from language systems. In this paper I will relate several of the most important structural changes and categorial differences in the verb systems
• Titolo autorizzato: Comparative studies in early Germanic languages
• ISBN: 90-272-7145-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811145903321
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• Serie: Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 138.