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Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions: A Corpus-Based Study (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Simone E. Pfenninger

Editorial

Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

370

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.4x15.5x2.3 cm

Peso

0.54 kg.

ISBN

9783034300216

ISBN13

9783034300216

N° edición

Categorías

Inglés
Alemán
Enseñanza y aprendizaje de idiomas: segunda lengua o lengua adicional
Aprendizaje de idiomas: gramática, vocabulario y pronunciación

Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions: A Corpus-Based Study (en Inglés)

Simone E. Pfenninger (Autor) · Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P · Tapa Blanda

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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.