Article Emergence in Old English a Constructionalist Perspective
This book investigates nominal determination in Old English and the emergence of the definite and the indefinite article. Analyzing Old English prose texts, it discusses the nature of linguistic categorization and argues that a usage-based, cognitive, constructionalist approach best explains when, h...
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| Формат: | Электронная книга |
| Язык: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2018]
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| Серии: | Topics in English linguistics ;
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| Online-ссылка: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Оглавление:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Nominal determination and the articles in Present Day English
- 3. Article emergence in Old English
- 4. Diachronic Construction Grammar
- 5. Nominal determination in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- 6. Nominal determination in Old English prose
- 7. Article emergence: a constructional scenario
- 8. Conclusion
- 9. Appendix: manuscript and corpus information
- References
- Index.