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The Grammar of Identity
Intensifiers and Reflexives in Germanic Languages
Langbeschreibung
All major Germanic languages except Yiddish have intensifiers that have developed from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic form *selba-. For example, in English we have "herself," in Icelandic there is "sjalfur "and in Gothic - "silba."This book deals with the question of why intensifiers and reflexives are formally indistinguishable in so many languages of the world. Using evidence from germanic languages, this is a semasiological study on the family of self-forms in Germanic languages.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction 2. The Distribution and Morphology of Head-Adjacent Self 3. Head-Adjacent Intensifiers as Expressions of an Identity Function 4. The Syntax of Head-Distant Intensifiers 5. Combinatorial Properties of Head-Distant Intensifiers 6. The Interpretation of Head-Distant Intensifiers 7. Reflexivity and the Identity Function 8. The Grammar of Reflexivity in Germanic Languages
Volker Gast
ISBN-13:
9780415394116
Veröffentl:
2006
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.07.2006
Seiten:
270
Autor:
Volker Gast
Gewicht:
535 g
Format:
235x162x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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