Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions: A Corpus-based Study: 345 (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European ... 21: Linguistics / Série 21: Linguistique) - Image 1

£68.78

Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions: A Corpus-based Study: 345 (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European ... 21: Linguistics / Série 21: Linguistique)

Name: Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions: A Corpus-based Study: 345 (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European ... 21: Linguistics / Serie 21: Linguistique)
Brand: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Price: 68.42 GBP
Availability: InStock

Advanced

Price data checked 3 days ago

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 88 days • 88 data points

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 88 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £69 (88 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £69 - £69

Price levels: 1 different prices over 88 days

Description

Existential constructions are a fundamental feature of many Indo-European languages, and constructions with non-referential subjects have developed in all of the latter, albeit at different stages in their histories. High German does not feature a prototypical existential construction that is equivalent in syntactic and pragmatic function and semantic meaning to the English existential there-construction. How did a prototypical existential structure originate in English? Why is it that High German has never developed such a construction? Has it ever shown a tendency towards developing one? How did two closely related languages such as English and High German come to differ so much with respect to these constructions? By means of investigating a variety of historical and contemporary data this study shows that not only semantic, pragmatic and syntactic factors are involved, which decide the choice of a certain construction, but also very much the more general different linguistic development that the two languages underwent in the course of time.

Product Specifications

Brand: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Format: paperback
ASIN: 3034300212
Category: Books > Subjects > Language Study & Reference > English as a Foreign Language > By Level > Advanced
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 08 June 2009
Listed Since: 05 June 2009

Barcode

No barcode data available

Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions: A Corpus-based Study: 345 (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European ... 21: Linguistics / Série 21: Linguistique)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Perfektkonstruktionen mit ›haben‹ und ›sein‹: Eine Korpusuntersuchung im Althochdeutschen, Altsächsischen und Neuhochdeutschen: 128 (Studia Linguistica Germanica, 128)

Optionality and overgeneralisation patterns in second language acquisition: Where has the expletive ensconced «it»self?: 18 (Potsdam Linguistic ... / Recherches Linguistiques à Potsdam)

Variation in English and German Nominal Coreference: A Study of Political Essays: 21 (Sabest. Saarbruecker Beitraege zur Sprach- und Translationswissenschaft)

The Making of Bad Language: Lay Linguistic Stigmatisations in German: Past Und Present: 28 (Variolingua. Nonstandard - Standard - Substandard)

Syntactic and Focus-Structural Aspects of Triadic Constructions: 264 (Europaische Hochschulschriften/European University Studies/Publications ... 21: Linguistics/Serie 21: Linguistique)

Grammatik im Gespräch: Konstruktionen Der Selbst- Und Fremdpositionierung: 33 (Linguistik - Impulse & Tendenzen)

De Gruyter Constructions: Emerging and Emergent (Volume 6)

Die Entwicklung der Konstruktion würde + Infinitiv im Deutschen

Strategies of Reflexivisation and the Meaning of Predicates: A Contrastive Analysis of English,German,and French: v. 16 (Aachen British and American ... Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik)

Grammatical theory

Routledge A Semantics for the English Existential Construction

Construction Grammar: The Structure of English (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Routledge Existential Sentences: Structure and Meaning Book

Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache, 2. Halbband, Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 35/2: Ein Internationales Handbuch

The Present-day English Gerund System: A Cognitive-Constructionist Account: 343 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 343)

Corpus-Based Studies of Diachronic English: 31 (Linguistic Insights)

Light Verb Constructions as Complex Verbs: Features, Typology and Function: 364 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 364)

Prefabricated Input in Language Acquisition: The Syntax of Storybooks: A Corpus-based Study of English Verb Complementation Patterns and Their Acquisition

The Grammar of Identity: Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic Languages (Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics)

Pragmaticalization: Language Change between Text and Grammar: 370 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 370)

Formal and Functional Perspectives on Tense and Related Categories: 270 (Europaische Hochschulschriften/European University Studies/Publications ... 21: Linguistics/Serie 21: Linguistique)

Syntactic Variation and Genre: 70 (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL], 70)

Axiomatic Functionalism: Theory and Application: Theory and Application

Linguistic Perspectives on English Grammar: A Guide for EFL Teachers