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Title: COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN EARLY GERMANIC LANGUAGES
WITH A FOCUS ON VERBAL CATEGORIES
By: Gabriele Diewald (Editor), Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (Editor), Ilse Wischer (Editor)
Format: Hardback

List price: £83.00


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ISBN 10: 9027206058
ISBN 13: 9789027206053
Publisher: JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
Pub. date: 10 October, 2013
Series: Studies in Language Companion Series 138
Pages: 324
Description: 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, this title presents founded studies on the stages and directions of these changes combining historical comparative methods with grammaticalisation theory.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: + index
Publication: Netherlands
Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Returns: Non-returnable
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