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Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions

A Corpus-Based Study

Simone E Pfenninger
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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?
By means of investigating a variety of historical and contemporary data this study shows that not only semantic, pragmatic and syntactic factors are involved, which decide the choice of a certain construction, but also very much the more general different linguistic development that the two languages underwent in the course of time.

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Nombre de pages :
370
Langue:
Anglais
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Tome:
n° 345

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EAN:
9783034300216
Date de parution :
08-06-09
Format:
Livre broché
Format numérique:
Trade paperback (VS)
Dimensions :
155 mm x 224 mm
Poids :
544 g

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