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The Diachrony of Definiteness in North Germanic

The Diachrony of Definiteness in North Germanic

Skrzypek, Dominika
Piotrowska, Alicja
Jaworski, Rafal

Hardcover

Linguistics

ISBN10: 9004436030
ISBN13: 9789004436039
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 30 2021
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in Danish, Swedish and Icelandic, as documented in a choice of extant texts from 1200-1550. These three North Germanic languages show different development patterns in the rise of articles, despite the common origin, but each reveals interdependencies between the two processes.
The matter is approached from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. The statistical analysis provides an improved overview on article grammaticalization, focusing on the factors at the basis of such process. The in-depth qualitative analysis of longer text passages places the crucial stage of the definite article grammaticalization with the so-called indirect anaphoric reference.

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