Article Emergence in Old English

Article Emergence in Old English
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9783110539417
ISBN-13 : 3110539411
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Book Synopsis Article Emergence in Old English by : Lotte Sommerer

Download or read book Article Emergence in Old English written by Lotte Sommerer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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