Noun Phrases In Early Germanic Languages

Author : Kristin Bech,Alexander Pfaff
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Noun phrases in early Germanic languages by Kristin Bech,Alexander Pfaff Pdf

On the premise that syntactic variation is constrained by factors that may not always be immediately obvious, this volume explores various perspectives on the nominal syntax in the early Germanic languages and the syntactic diversity they display. The fact that these languages are relatively well attested and documented allows for individual cases studies as well as comparative studies. Due to their well-observable common ancestry at the time of their earliest attestations, they moreover permit close-up comparative investigations into closely related languages. Besides the purely empirical aspects, the volume also explores the methodological side of diagnosing, classifying and documenting the details of syntactic diversity. The volume starts with a description by Alexander Pfaff and Gerlouf Bouma of the principles underlying the Noun Phrases in Early Germanic Languages (NPEGL) database, before Alexander Pfaff presents the Patternization method for measuring syntactic diversity. Kristin Bech, Hannah Booth, Kersti Börjars, Tine Breban, Svetlana Petrova, and George Walkden carry out a pilot study of noun phrase variation in Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, and Old Saxon. Kristin Bech then considers the development of Old English noun phrases with quantifiers meaning ‘many’. Alexandra Rehn’s study is concerned with the inflection of stacked adjectives in Old High German and Alemannic. Old High German is also the topic of Svetlana Petrova’s study, which looks at inflectional patterns of attributive adjectives. With Hannah Booth’s contribution we move to Old Icelandic and the use of the proprial article as a topic management device. Juliane Tiemann investigates adjective position in Old Norwegian. Alexander Pfaff and George Walkden then take a broader view of adjectival articles in early Germanic, before Alexander Pfaff rounds off the volume with a study of a peculiar class of adjectives, the so-called positional predicates, which occur across the early Germanic languages.

Author : Kristin Bech,Alexander Pfaff
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104673

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Noun phrases in early Germanic languages by Kristin Bech,Alexander Pfaff Pdf

On the premise that syntactic variation is constrained by factors that may not always be immediately obvious, this volume explores various perspectives on the nominal syntax in the early Germanic languages and the syntactic diversity they display. The fact that these languages are relatively well attested and documented allows for individual cases studies as well as comparative studies. Due to their well-observable common ancestry at the time of their earliest attestations, they moreover permit close-up comparative investigations into closely related languages. Besides the purely empirical aspects, the volume also explores the methodological side of diagnosing, classifying and documenting the details of syntactic diversity. The volume starts with a description by Alexander Pfaff and Gerlof Bouma of the principles underlying the Noun Phrases in Early Germanic Languages (NPEGL) database, before Alexander Pfaff presents the Patternization method for measuring syntactic diversity. Kristin Bech, Hannah Booth, Kersti Börjars, Tine Breban, Svetlana Petrova, and George Walkden carry out a pilot study of noun phrase variation in Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, and Old Saxon. Kristin Bech then considers the development of Old English noun phrases with quantifiers meaning ‘many’. Alexandra Rehn’s study is concerned with the inflection of stacked adjectives in Old High German and Alemannic. Old High German is also the topic of Svetlana Petrova’s study, which looks at inflectional patterns of attributive adjectives. With Hannah Booth’s contribution we move to Old Icelandic and the use of the proprial article as a topic management device. Juliane Tiemann investigates adjective position in Old Norwegian. Alexander Pfaff and George Walkden then take a broader view of adjectival articles in early Germanic, before Alexander Pfaff rounds off the volume with a study of a peculiar class of adjectives, the so-called positional predicates, which occur across the early Germanic languages.

Author : Antonia Petronella Sleeman,Harry Perridon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255549

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The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic by Antonia Petronella Sleeman,Harry Perridon Pdf

One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It is, on the other hand, by no means clear what exactly was borrowed, since the way in which definiteness is expressed differs greatly among the various Germanic and Romance languages and dialects. One of the main aims of this volume is to shed some light on the question of what is similar and what is different in the structure of the noun phrase of the various Romance and Germanic languages and dialects, and what causes this similarity or difference.

Author : Toril Swan,Endre Mørck,Olaf Jansen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110886573

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Language Change and Language Structure by Toril Swan,Endre Mørck,Olaf Jansen Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Ekkehard Konig,Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 648 pages
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Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317799580

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The Germanic Languages by Ekkehard Konig,Johan van der Auwera Pdf

Provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve Germanic languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish.

Author : D. H. Green,Dennis Howard Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 464 pages
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Release : 2000-08-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521794234

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Language and History in the Early Germanic World by D. H. Green,Dennis Howard Green Pdf

This book presents linguistic evidence for many aspects of pre-Christian and early medieval European culture.

Author : Robert Dennis Fulk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2018
Category : Germanic languages
ISBN : 9027263124

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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages by Robert Dennis Fulk Pdf

Fulk's Comparative Grammar offers an overview of and bibliographical guide to the study of the phonology and the inflectional morphology of the earliest Germanic languages, with particular attention to Gothic, Old Norse / Icelandic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Old High German, along with some attention to the more sparsely attested languages. The sounds and inflections of the oldest Germanic languages are compared, with a view to reconstructing the forms they took in Proto-Germanic and comparing those reconstructed forms with what is known of the Indo-European protolanguage. Students will find the book an informative introduction and a bibliographically instructive point of departure for intensive research in the numerous issues that remain profoundly contested in early Germanic language history.

Author : Joseph B. Voyles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
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Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1014963899

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Early Germanic Grammar by Joseph B. Voyles Pdf

Author : Elmer H. Antonsen,Hans Henrich Hock
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 227 pages
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Release : 1991-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277909

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STAEFCRAEFT by Elmer H. Antonsen,Hans Henrich Hock Pdf

The first Symposium on Germanic Linguistics was organized at the University of Chicago by Jan Terje Faarlund. The notable success of this undertaking led Elmer H. Antonsen, Hans Henrich Hock, and James W. Marchand to arrange the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois. This volume contains revised versions of selected papers from the two symposia. The thirteen papers cover a broad cross-section of Germanic linguistics, including problems in synchronic syntax, mainly of Dutch and German; the synchronic morphology of German; synchronic morphophonology of various Germanic languages; historical and comparative Germanic phonology; language contact and early Germanic morphosyntax; and early Germanic historical and comparative syntax, with extensive reference to Beowulf. Bibliographic references are consolidated in a single Master List of References; there also is an Index of Names.

Author : Wayne Harbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781139461528

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The Germanic Languages by Wayne Harbert Pdf

Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major world languages such as English and German (West Germanic), the Scandinavian (North Germanic) languages, and the extinct East Germanic languages. Unlike previous studies, it does not take a chronological or a language-by-language approach, organized instead around linguistic constructions and subsystems. Considering dialects alongside standard varieties, it provides a detailed account of topics such as case, word formation, sound systems, vowel length, syllable structure, the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the expression of tense and mood, and the syntax of the clause. Authoritative and comprehensive, this much-needed survey will be welcomed by scholars and students of the Germanic languages, as well as linguists across the many branches of the field.

Author : Christopher Laenzlinger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282316

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Comparative Studies in Word Order Variation by Christopher Laenzlinger Pdf

The present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of French/Romance and German/Germanic. It starts by asking: What do adverbs, pronouns and full noun phrases have in common? This question is tackled, on the one hand, from an empirical perspective by the description of relevant linguistic facts leading to significant and unexpected generalizations, and, on the other hand, from a theoretical perspective by the formalization of (i) a novel model of the Xbar-schema containing at most two Specifiers (double Spec model) and (ii) a well-defined model of Checking Theory, distinguishing A-feature checking from Abar-feature checking (Criterion). The first part of the book deals with the typology and placement of adverbs, while the second part of the book presents the application of Checking Theory, in interaction with the double Spec model of Xbar-theory, to pronouns in Romance and Germanic. The final part of the book contains a treatment of scrambling in Germanic and shows that word order variations among arguments and adverbs within the German(ic) Mittelfeld can be adequately explained in the light of the version of Checking Theory and Phrase Structure Theory developed so far for adverbs and pronouns. We are led to the conclusion that the well-known issue of word order variations can find promising solutions with the Principles & Parameters framework, on the basis of a well-defined formalization of (i) Xbar-theory, (ii) Checking Theory, (iii) clause structure composition, and (iv) locality constraints on syntactic operations and relations.

Author : Petra Sleeman,Freek Van de Velde,Harry Perridon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270689

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Adjectives in Germanic and Romance by Petra Sleeman,Freek Van de Velde,Harry Perridon Pdf

Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic and morphological category, the syntax, morphology, and interpretation of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups, and there is even variation within each of the language groups. One of the main aims of this volume is to map the differences and similarities in syntactic behavior, morphology, and meaning of the Germanic and Romance adjective and to find an answer to the following question: Are the (dis)similarities the result of autonomous developments in each of the two branches of the Indo-European language family, or are they caused by language contact?

Author : Alan Scott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004183285

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The Genitive Case in Dutch and German by Alan Scott Pdf

In The Genitive Case in Dutch and German: A Study of Morphosyntactic Change in Codified Languages, Alan K. Scott offers an account of the tension that exists between morphosyntactic change and codification, focusing on the effect that codification has had on the genitive case and alternative constructions in both languages. On the basis of usage data from a wide variety of registers, from the 16th century to the present day, Alan K. Scott demonstrates that codification has preserved obsolescent morphological genitive constructions in Dutch and German while suppressing their potential replacements, and shows that, despite its association with norm-conformant language, the genitive is used to a surprisingly large extent in informal early modern Dutch and modern German sources.

Author : Alex Ho-Cheong Leung,Wim van der Wurff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264060

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The Noun Phrase in English by Alex Ho-Cheong Leung,Wim van der Wurff Pdf

Building on a substantial earlier literature, the chapters in this volume further advance knowledge and understanding of properties of the noun phrase in English. The empirical material for the papers includes both historical and present-day data, with the two often shedding light on each other in a process of mutual illumination. The topics addressed are: the structure of nounless NPs like the poor and the obvious; the article/zero alternation in expressions like go to (the) church; developments in the early history of adjective stacking; the semantics of N + clause units in present-day English; the history of N + BE + clause constructions; and the decline of two anaphoric NPs in Early Modern English. The volume will appeal to scholars working in this area and will also help those interested in the general field of English grammar to keep abreast of recent methods and results in NP-related work.

Author : Helena Raumolin-Brunberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015022014941

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The Noun Phrase in Early Sixteenth-century English by Helena Raumolin-Brunberg Pdf