Comparative studies in early Germanic languages: with a focus on verbal categories

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Full title :Comparative studies in early Germanic languages : with a focus on verbal categories / edited by Gabriele Diewald, Leibniz University Hannover ; Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, University of Helsinki ; Ilse Wischer, University of Potsdam.

Summary

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 development of verbal categories, even though they descended from a common ancestor language, the contributions present in-depth, empirically founded studies on the stages and directions of these changes combining historical comparative methods with grammaticalisation theory. This collection of papers provides the reader with an indispensable source of information on the early traces of distinct developments, thus laying the foundation for a broad-scale scenario of grammaticalisation of verbal categories. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of language change, grammaticalisation, and diachronic sociolinguistics; it offers important new insights for typologists and for everybody interested in the make-up of verbal categories.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

Notes

This publication comprises the papers presented at a workshop on the "Contrastive study of the verbal categories and their grammaticalisation in Old English and Old High German" held at the 16th ICEHL in Pécs, Hungary, in August 2010.

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Description:1 online resource (page cm)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027271457, 9027271453
oclc:ocn859154899
LC Classification:PE1075
Dewey Decimal:429/.56

Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC page ; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Verbal categories and their diachronic development in Old English and Old High German; 2. Grammaticalisation, comparative diachronic linguistics and socio-cultural/philological aspects; 3. Historical comparative corpus studies; 4. The verbal categories studied in this volume; 5. Summary and outlook; References; *haitan in Gothic and Old English; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 2.1 Corpora and data collection; 3. Results.

3.1 Functions of Gothic haitan and Old English hātan3.1.1 Gothic; 3.1.2 Early Old English; 3.1.3 Late Old English; 3.1.4 Comparison of Gothic and Early and Late Old English; 3.2 Competitors of haitan in Gothic; 4. Discussion and conclusion; Appendix; Early Old English Texts; Late Old English Texts; References; Incipient Grammaticalisation; 1. Introduction; 2. Problems with the traditional view of an Old High German and Old English passive; 2.1 Old High German; 2.2 Old English; 3. Theoretical considerations for the interpretation of constructions with the past participle in English and German.

3.1 The copulas: OHG sīn/wesan and werdan, OE…

Subjects

English language -- Grammar, Comparative English language -- Grammar, Historical FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Old & Middle … Germanic languages -- Grammar, Comparat… Germanic languages -- Grammar, Historic… Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gra… Grammaticalisation LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General Langues germaniques -- Grammaire compar… Langues germaniques -- Grammaire histor…