Agreement from a Diachronic Perspective / / ed. by Jürg Fleischer, Elisabeth Rieken, Paul Widmer.
The contents of the present volume will enhance our understanding of the diachrony of agreement systems and provide a useful starting point for future studies on this both fascinating and intricate field of research.
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Editors’ preface
- Contents
- Introduction: the diachrony of agreement
- Part 1: Verbal and adpositional agreement
- Exploring diachronic universals of agreement: alignment patterns and zero marking across person categories
- The transformation of verb agreement into epistemic marking: evidence from Tibeto-Burman
- How to make a comitative preposition agree it-with its external argument: Songhay and the typology of conjunction and agreement
- Part 2: (Pro)nominal agreement
- The impact of morphology on change in agreement systems
- Pronominal gender agreement: a salience-based competition
- Person-marked quantifiers in Kinyarwanda
- Degrees of Agreement in Old Irish
- Part 3: Mismatch constellations and resolution contexts
- Hybrid nouns and their complexity
- When friends and teachers become hybrids (even more than they were)
- Between feminine and neuter, between semantic and pragmatic gender: hybrid names in German dialects and in Luxembourgish
- Gender agreement in 19th- and 20th-century Icelandic
- One plus one make(s) – what?
- Agreement patterns of coordinations in Hittite
- Index of languages
- Index of subjects