35.1419, Books: Noun phrases in early Germanic languages: Bech and Pfaff (eds.) (2024)

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Date: 05-Apr-2024
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Noun phrases in early Germanic languages: Bech and Pfaff (eds.) (2024)


Title: Noun phrases in early Germanic languages
Series Title: Open Germanic Linguistics
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/436

Editor: Kristin Bech
Editor: Alexander Pfaff
eBook: ISBN: 9783961104673 Pages: 428 Price: Europe EURO 0
Abstract:

On the premise that syntactic variation is constrained by factors that
may not always be immediately obvious, this volume explores various
perspectives on the nominal syntax in the early Germanic languages and
the syntactic diversity they display. The fact that these languages
are relatively well attested and documented allows for individual
cases studies as well as comparative studies. Due to their
well-observable common ancestry at the time of their earliest
attestations, they moreover permit close-up comparative investigations
into closely related languages. Besides the purely empirical aspects,
the volume also explores the methodological side of diagnosing,
classifying and documenting the details of syntactic diversity. The
volume starts with a description by Alexander Pfaff and Gerlof Bouma
of the principles underlying the Noun Phrases in Early Germanic
Languages (NPEGL) database, before Alexander Pfaff presents the
Patternization method for measuring syntactic diversity. Kristin Bech,
Hannah Booth, Kersti Börjars, Tine Breban, Svetlana Petrova, and
George Walkden carry out a pilot study of noun phrase variation in Old
English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, and Old Saxon. Kristin Bech
then considers the development of Old English noun phrases with
quantifiers meaning ‘many’. Alexandra Rehn’s study is concerned with
the inflection of stacked adjectives in Old High German and Alemannic.
Old High German is also the topic of Svetlana Petrova’s study, which
looks at inflectional patterns of attributive adjectives. With Hannah
Booth’s contribution we move to Old Icelandic and the use of the
proprial article as a topic management device. Juliane Tiemann
investigates adjective position in Old Norwegian. Alexander Pfaff and
George Walkden then take a broader view of adjectival articles in
early Germanic, before Alexander Pfaff rounds off the volume with a
study of a peculiar class of adjectives, the so-called positional
predicates, which occur across the early Germanic languages.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Language Family(ies): Germanic

Written In: English (eng)



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