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019 _a(OCoLC)1002222139
019 _a(OCoLC)1004872558
019 _a(OCoLC)1011439821
019 _a(OCoLC)987921958
019 _a(OCoLC)992454349
019 _a(OCoLC)999367486
020 _a9783110220346
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020 _a9783110220353
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9783110220353
035 _a(DE-B1597)36777
035 _a(OCoLC)615622320
040 _aDE-B1597
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMengden, Ferdinand von
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCardinal Numerals :
_bOld English from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective /
_cFerdinand von Mengden.
264 1 _aBerlin ;
_aBoston :
_bDe Gruyter Mouton,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource (329 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aTopics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
_x1434-3452 ;
_v67
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tTable of contents --
_tAbbreviations --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter I. Linguistic numeral systems --
_tChapter II. The numeral system of Old English --
_tChapter III. Complex numerals --
_tChapter IV. Numeral constructions in Old English --
_tChapter V. The word class ‘cardinal numeral’ --
_tConcluding remarks --
_tBackmatter
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe book embeds a description and an analysis of the Old English numeral system into a broader, cross-linguistic discussion. It provides a theoretical framework for the study of numerals and numeral systems of natural languages, bridging the gap between recent findings in the cognitive sciences on numeracy and the known typological generalisations on cardinal numerals. The Old English numeral system shows a number of peculiarities not found in the present-day languages of Europe. Its detailed description is therefore an ideal locus for studying the features of linguistic number expressions in terms of their morpho-syntactic properties and of the structure of numeral systems.The approach is innovative in that it combines a detailed analysis of the numeral system with the analysis of the grammatical properties of cardinal numerals. For the description of Old English, the study focuses on aspects of information structure and of referent identification in quantificational constructions. This leads to a novel perspective on the language-internal variation in the agreement patterns between numerals and quantified nouns, allowing the author to test and refine some long standing tenets in the study of numerals and to offer alternative explanations. Rather than seeing numerals as a hybrid word class, the author argues that this variation in the morpho-syntactic behaviour follows identifiable patterns specific to the word class numeral. He accounts for these patterns by positing different, cross-linguistically uniform stages in the emergence of numeral systems, as well as varying degrees of discreteness of the quantified noun. Moreover, the author demonstrates that the constraints determining this variation in Old English have obvious parallels across languages.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
650 0 _aCardinal numbers.
650 0 _aComparative linguistics.
650 0 _aEnglish language
_yOld English, ca. 450-1100
_xNumerals.
650 0 _aNumeration.
650 4 _aEnglisch /Sprache.
650 4 _aHistorische Linguistik.
650 4 _aTypologie /Sprache.
650 7 _aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
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653 _aEnglish /Language.
653 _aHistorical Linguistics.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220353
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110220353
856 4 2 _3Cover
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