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Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions; A Corpus-based Study

Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions; A Corpus-based Study

Pfenninger, Simone E.

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Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européenn, Book 345

English as a Second LanguageGermanGrammar & Style

ISBN10: 3034300212
ISBN13: 9783034300216
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: Jun 8 2009
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Existential constructions are a fundamental feature of many Indo-European languages, and constructions with non-referential subjects have developed in all of the latter, albeit at different stages in their histories.
High German does not feature a prototypical existential construction that is equivalent in syntactic and pragmatic function and semantic meaning to the English existential there-construction. How did a prototypical existential structure originate in English? Why is it that High German has never developed such a construction? Has it ever shown a tendency towards developing one? How did two closely related languages such as English and High German come to differ so much with respect to these constructions?

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