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Agreement from a diachronic perspective / edited by Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken, Paul Widmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; Volume 287.
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 1861-4302 ; Volume 287
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Historical linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015.
- Language Note:
- German
- Summary:
- The contents of the present volume will enhance our understanding of the diachrony of agreement systems and provide a useful starting point for future studies on this both fascinating and intricate field of research.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Editors’ preface
- Contents
- Introduction: the diachrony of agreement
- Exploring diachronic universals of agreement: alignment patterns and zero marking across person categories
- The transformation of verb agreement into epistemic marking: evidence from Tibeto-Burman
- How to make a comitative preposition agree it-with its external argument: Songhay and the typology of conjunction and agreement
- The impact of morphology on change in agreement systems
- Pronominal gender agreement: a salience-based competition
- Person-marked quantifiers in Kinyarwanda
- Degrees of Agreement in Old Irish
- Hybrid nouns and their complexity
- When friends and teachers become hybrids (even more than they were)
- Between feminine and neuter, between semantic and pragmatic gender: hybrid names in German dialects and in Luxembourgish
- Gender agreement in 19th- and 20th-century Icelandic
- One plus one make(s) – what?
- Agreement patterns of coordinations in Hittite
- Index of languages
- Index of subjects
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 15, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9783110399967
- 3110399962
- 9783110400090
- 311040009X
- OCLC:
- 913088042
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