Agreement from a Diachronic Perspective / / ed. by Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken, Paul Widmer.
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.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Editors’ preface -- Contents -- Introduction: the diachrony of agreement -- Part 1: Verbal and adpositional 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 -- Part 2: (Pro)nominal 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 -- Part 3: Mismatch constellations and resolution contexts -- 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 |
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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110399967 9783110762518 9783110700985 9783110742961 9783110439687 9783110438710 |
ISSN: | 1861-4302 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110399967 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken, Paul Widmer. |