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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- 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
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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