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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.

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Conference/Event
Contributor:
Diewald, Gabriele, editor.
Kahlas-Tarkka, Leena, editor.
Wischer, Ilse, 1959- editor.
EBSCOhost.
Rosengarten Family Fund.
Conference Name:
International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (16th : 2010 : Pécs, Hungary)
Series:
Studies in language companion series ; v. 138.
Studies in language companion series (SLCS) ; volume 138
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English language--Grammar, Comparative.
English language.
English language--Grammar, Historical.
Germanic languages--Grammar, Comparative.
Germanic languages.
Germanic languages--Grammar, Historical.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Genre:
Conference papers and proceedings.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 318 pages) : illustrations.
Place of Publication:
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
*Haitan in Gothic and Old English / Robert A. Cloutier
Incipient grammaticalisation : sources of passive constructions in Old High German and Old English / Robert Mailhammer & Elena Smirnova
Passive auxiliaries in english and german : decline versus grammaticalisation of bounded language use / Peter Petré
Causative habban in Old English : tracing the development of a budding construction / Matti Kilpiö
Remembering (ge)munan : the rise and decline of a potential modal / Matthias Eitelmann
The emergence of modal meanings from haben with zu-infinitives in Old High German / Anne Jäger
Hearsay and lexical evidential in Old Germanic languages, with focus on Old English / Olga Timofeeva
Markers of futurity in Old High German and Old English : a comparative corpus-based study / Gabriele Diewald & Use Wischer
The verb to be in the West Saxon Gospels and the Lindisfarne Gospels / Christine Bolze
Aspectual properties of the verbal prefix a- in Old English with reference to Gothic / Vlatko Broz
Pǣr wæs vs. thâr was : Old English and Old High German existential constructions with adverbs of place / Simone E. Pfenninger
On gain and loss of verbal categories in language contact : Old English vs. Old High German / Theo Vennemann
Index.
Notes:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
ISBN:
9789027271457
9027271453
Publisher Number:
99966576039
40022900810
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Restricted for use by site license.

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