32.1847, Books: The Diachrony of Definiteness in North Germanic: Skrzypek, Piotrowska, Jaworski

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Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 21:33:48
From: Clovis Jaillet [Jaillet at Brill.com]
Subject: The Diachrony of Definiteness in North Germanic: Skrzypek, Piotrowska, Jaworski

 


Title: The Diachrony of Definiteness in North Germanic 
Series Title: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/view/title/58312 


Author: Dominika Skrzypek
Author: Alicja Piotrowska
Author: Rafał Jaworski

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004463684 Pages:  Price: ----  
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004436039 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in
Danish, Swedish and Icelandic, as documented in a choice of extant texts from
1200-1550. These three North Germanic languages show different development
patterns in the rise of articles, despite the common origin, but each reveals
interdependencies between the two processes.

The matter is approached from both a quantitative and a qualitative
perspective. The statistical analysis provides an improved overview on article
grammaticalization, focusing on the factors at the basis of such process. The
in-depth qualitative analysis of longer text passages places the crucial stage
of the definite article grammaticalization with the so-called indirect
anaphoric reference.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Danish (dan)
                     Icelandic (isl)
                     Swedish (swe)


Written In: English  (eng)

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