At first glance, there may seem little reason to think of English and German as variant forms of a single language. There are enormous differences between the two in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, and a monolingual speaker of one cannot understand the other at all. Yet …
Parlons allemand: langue et culture d'un pays voisin
The Germanic languages display cross-linguistic variation with respect to whether predicative adjectives agree. This paper attempts to determine which component of the grammar is responsible for this variation. In order to do so, it examines three different options: the variatio…
Historical linguistics 1995: selected papers from the 12th International Confe…
by International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, Hogg, Richard M., International Conference on Historical Linguistics (12, 1995, Manchester)
fromAmsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic s…
Historical linguistics 1995: selected papers from the 12th International Confe…
by International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, England), Bentley, Delia, Bergen, Linda van, Smith, John Charles, Hogg, Richard M.
fromAmsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic S…
Historical linguistics 1995: selected papers from the 12th International Confe…
by International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, England), Bentley, Delia, Bergen, Linda van, Smith, John Charles, Hogg, Richard M.
fromAmsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic S…