(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781803745145)
This book presents a diachronic corpus-based study of death-related intensifiers from a grammaticalisation perspective, offering a full account of the evolution of these forms from their origins up to present-day English. To this end, evidence from...Loe edasi...
Variation within the English language is a vast research area, of which dialectology, the study of geographic variation, is a significant part. This book explores grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech d...Loe edasi...
What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve? How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What is the connection between language use and language structure? This book aims to help answer such questions...Loe edasi...
Gabriele Diewald, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Ilse Wischer
Sari: Studies in Language Companion Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Oct-2013, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027206053)
This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the dev...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Oct-2012, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107003453)
Variation within the English language is a vast research area, of which dialectology, the study of geographic variation, is a significant part. This book explores grammatical differences between British English dialects, drawing on authentic speech d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Sep-2010, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027205865)
This volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective. Some of the papers focus on basic concepts in grammaticalization research such as the concept of grammar as the endpoint of grammaticalization processes, ero...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2010, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631600276)
Lecki (linguistics, Pedagogical U. of Cracow, Poland) explores the emergence of the verb have in English through the lens of grammaticalization theory, arguing that the grammatical emergence of have occurred sequentially through pragmatic-semantic, m...Loe edasi...
What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve? How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What is the connection between language use and language structure? This book aims to help answer such questions...Loe edasi...
