A history of English reflexive pronouns : person, self, and interpretability /
This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and Middle...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2000.
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| Collection: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 39. |
| Accès en ligne: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=253440 |
| Résumé: | This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and Middle English texts showing a person split between first, second, and third person pronouns. Extending an analysis by Reinhart & Reuland, the author argues that the 'strength' of certain pronominal features (Case, person, number) differs cross-linguistically and that parametric variation accounts for the. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027299178 902729917X 9781556199882 1556199880 9789027227607 9027227608 128216337X 9781282163379 |