Agreement from a Diachronic Perspective /
Agreement from a Diachronic Perspective /
ed. by Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken, Paul Widmer.
- 1 online resource (355 p.)
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 287 1861-4302 ; .
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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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110373349 9783110400090 9783110399967
10.1515/9783110399967 doi
Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement.
Historical linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Agreement. Diachrony.
P21
415
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110373349 9783110400090 9783110399967
10.1515/9783110399967 doi
Grammar, Comparative and general--Agreement.
Historical linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Agreement. Diachrony.
P21
415