The Evolution of the System of Long and Short Adjectives in Old Russian

• Autore: Larsen Karin
• Pubblicazione: Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (283 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Language
• Soggetto non controllato: Adjective; Adjectives; adjectives of affiliation; attributive position; Church Slavic; Evolution; Larsen; Long; Novogrod Chronicle; prehistoric Slavic; Russian; Short; System
• Sommario/riassunto: The present study is a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the system of long and short adjectives in Old Russian, a profound language change to which very little previous research has been devoted. It is generally assumed that in prehistoric Slavic, the system was purely grammatical with the long form denoting definiteness and the short form denoting indefiniteness. The present study finds, on the basis of evidence collected from Old Russian chronicle texts, that even the earliest of these sources display a substantially transformed system no longer reflecting the opposition between definiteness and indefiniteness, but governed by parameters of information structure.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Evolution of the System of Long and Short Adjectives in Old Russian
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Record Nr.: 9910563056303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II