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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 12:16:42
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Quantifying Expressions in the History of German: Roehrs, Sapp
Title: Quantifying Expressions in the History of German
Subtitle: Syntactic reanalysis and morphological change
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 230
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.230
Author: Dorian Roehrs
Author: Christopher Sapp
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027267115 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00
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Abstract:
This study describes the 1200-year history of German quantifying expressions
like nîoman anderro > niemand anderer ‘nobody else’, analyzing the
morpho-syntactic developments within the generative framework. The quantifiers
examined arose from various lexical sources/categories (nouns, adjectives, and
pronouns) but all changed to adjectival quantifiers. These changes are
interpreted as a novel type of upward reanalysis from head to specifier, which
we associate with degrammaticalization driven by analogy. As for the
quantified phrases, most appeared in the genitive in Old High German,
indicating a bi-nominal structure. During the Early New High German period,
most quantified nouns and adjectives changed to agreement with the quantifier.
By Modern German, only quantified DPs and pronouns remain in the genitive.
These changes involve downward reanalysis of the quantified elements, being
integrated into the matrix nominal depending on the structural size of the
quantified phrase. Overall, we conclude that diachronically quantifying
expressions may have different syntactic analyses.
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Syntax
Subject Language(s): German (deu)
German, Old High (goh)
Written In: English (eng)
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