Analyticity and Syntheticity : : A Diachronic Perspective with Special Reference to Romance Languages / / Armin Schwegler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• VerfasserIn: Schwegler, Armin,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb. u. Tab.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Abbreviations --; Chapter one. History of the terms “analytic” and “synthetic” --; Chapter two. Word delimitation: in search of a universal --; Chapter three. Fishing out the baby: The usefulness of the terms analyticity/syntheticity in diachronic description --; Chapter four. The verbal core from Latin to French: Part 1: The marking of person/number: from synthetic to analytic? --; Chapter five. The verbal core from Latin to French: Part 2: Periphrastic cantare habeo, habeo cantatum, and je vais chanter --; Chapter six. Synthesis in non-contiguous elements: predicate negation in Romance --; Chapter seven. On drift, cyclicity, reconstruction, and the motives for changes in the analytic/synthetic spectrum --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Subject Index --; Author Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110872927; 9783110636895
• ISSN: 0933-761X
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110872927
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Armin Schwegler.