TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sommerer,Lotte
TI  - Article Emergence in Old English: A Constructionalist Perspective 
T2  - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
SN  - 9783110539370
U1  - 425.5 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - English language
KW  - Article
KW  - Old English, ca. 450-1100
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Analogy
KW  - Articles
KW  - Constructionalization
KW  - Definiteness
KW  - Nominal Determination
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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, how and why the article category developed. It is shown that the development of the OE demonstrative 'se' (that) and the OE numeral 'an' (one) should not be told as a story of two individual, grammaticalizing morphemes, but must be reconceptualized in constructional terms. The emergence of the morphological category ‘article’ follows from constructional changes in the linguistic networks of OE speakers and especially from ‘grammatical constructionalization’ (i.e. the emergence of a new, schematic, mostly procedural form-meaning pairing which previously did not exist in the constructicon). Next to other functional-cognitive reasons, the book especially highlights analogy and frequency effects as driving forces of linguistic change
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110541052
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110541052
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110541052/original
ER  -