Grammaticalization Paths Of English And High German Existential Constructions
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| Author | : Simone E. Pfenninger |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9783034300216 |
Existential constructions are a fundamental feature of many Indo-European languages, and constructions with non-referential subjects have developed in all of the latter, albeit at different stages in their histories. High German does not feature a prototypical existential construction that is equivalent in syntactic and pragmatic function and semantic meaning to the English existential there-construction. How did a prototypical existential structure originate in English? Why is it that High German has never developed such a construction? Has it ever shown a tendency towards developing one? How did two closely related languages such as English and High German come to differ so much with respect to these constructions? By means of investigating a variety of historical and contemporary data this study shows that not only semantic, pragmatic and syntactic factors are involved, which decide the choice of a certain construction, but also very much the more general different linguistic development that the two languages underwent in the course of time.
| Author | : Gabriele Diewald |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2013-10-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027271453 |
This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they descended from a common ancestor language, the contributions present in-depth, empirically founded studies on the stages and directions of these changes combining historical comparative methods with grammaticalisation theory. This collection of papers provides the reader with an indispensable source of information on the early traces of distinct developments, thus laying the foundation for a broad-scale scenario of the grammaticalisation of verbal categories. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of language change, grammaticalisation, and diachronic sociolinguistics; it offers important new insights for typologists and for everybody interested in the make-up of verbal categories.
| Author | : Paloma Núñez-Pertejo |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2019-12-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1350053872 |
Breaking away from previously rigid descriptions of the linguistic system of the English language, Crossing Linguistic Boundaries explores fascinating case studies which refuse to fall neatly within the traditional definitions of linguistic domains and boundaries. Bringing together leading international scholars in English linguistics, this volume focusses on these controversies in relation to seeking to overcome the temporal and geographical limits of the English language. Approaching tensions in the areas of English phonology and phonetics, pragmatics, semantics, morphology and syntax, chapters discuss not only British and American English but also a wide variety of geographical variants. Containing synchronic and diachronic studies covering different periods in the history of English, Crossing Linguistic Boundaries will appeal to anyone interested in linguistic variation in English.
| Author | : Ole Schützler |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2022-05-26 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1108499643 |
By contrasting different approaches and datasets, this book highlights critical developments in latest corpus-linguistic research.
| Author | : Paula Rodríguez Abruñeiras |
| Publisher | : Universitat de València |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2021-06-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 8491348417 |
This textbook intends to do a clear, informal review of the history of the English language. Although the main focus is not to provide a thorough social description of the different periods in which the history of English is divided, we want to make it clear that language has changed because it is used by society, and therefore one cannot be understood without the other.
| Author | : Andre? L?vovich Mal?chukov |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 653 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027205914 |
Features the contributions that deal with various types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates, presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality, and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties.
| Author | : Laura Rupp |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2019-06-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1349728039 |
This book investigates –s marking in English verbs, specifically its manifestations in main verbs, in the past tense of BE, and in existential constructions. It embraces the many ways in which –s marking varies across the English speaking world, and considers both how it arose in these places historically and the ways in which it has since developed. The authors propose a story which holistically accounts for these different manifestations of –s, drawing upon evidence from a wide range of subdisciplines in linguistics, including sociolinguistics, generative syntax, historical linguistics, dialectology, and discourse-pragmatics. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in these and related fields.
| Author | : Kristin Bech |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2019-12-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110682664 |
This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based frameworks and investigate processes of grammatical change in context. Although usage-based linguistics emphasizes the centrality of the discourse context for language usage and cognition, this insight has not been fully integrated into the investigation of processes of grammatical variation and change. The structuralist heritage as well as corpus linguistic methodologies have favoured de-contextualized analytical perspectives on contemporary and historical language data and on the mechanisms and processes guiding grammatical variation and change. From a range of different perspectives, the contributions to this volume take up the challenge of contextualization in the investigation of grammatical variation and change in different stages of English language history and discuss central theoretical notions such as gradable grammaticality, motivation in hypervariation, and hypercharacterization. The book will be relevant to students and linguists working in the field of diachronic and variational linguistics and English language history.
| Author | : Bridget Drinka |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 509 |
| Release | : 2020-07-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027261679 |
The collected articles in this volume address an array of cutting-edge issues in the field of historical linguistics, including new theoretical approaches and innovative methodologies for studying language through a diachronic lens. The articles focus on the following themes: I. Case & Argument Structure, II. Alignment & Diathesis, III. Patterns, Paradigms, & Restructuring, IV. Grammaticalization & Construction Grammar, V. Corpus Linguistics & Morphosyntax, VI. Languages in Contact. Papers reflect a wide range of perspectives, and focus on issues and data from an array of languages and language families, from new analyses of case and argument structure in Ancient Greek to phonological evidence for language contact in Vietnamese, from patterns of convergence in Neo-Aramaic to the development of the ergative in Basque. The volume contributes substantially to the debate surrounding core issues of language change: the role of the individual speaker, the nature of paths of grammaticalization, the role of contact, the interface of diachrony and synchrony, and many other issues. It should be useful to any reader hoping to gain insight into the nature of language change.
| Author | : Simone E. Pfenninger |
| Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2017-04-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1783097647 |
This book constitutes a holistic study of how and why late starters surpass early starters in comparable instructional settings. Combining advanced quantitative methods with individual-level qualitative data, it examines the role of age of onset in the context of the Swiss multilingual educational system and focuses on performance at the beginning and end of secondary school, thereby offering a long-term view of the teenage experience of foreign language learning. The study scrutinised factors that seem to prevent young starters from profiting from their extended learning period and investigated the mechanisms that enable late beginners to catch up with early beginners relatively quickly. Taking account of contextual factors, individual socio-affective factors and instructional factors within a single longitudinal study, the book makes a convincing case that age of onset is not only of minimal relevance for many aspects of instructed language acquisition, but that in this context, for a number of reasons, a later onset can be beneficial.
