A History Of The Reflective Pronouns In The English Language
Download A History Of The Reflective Pronouns In The English Language full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free A History Of The Reflective Pronouns In The English Language ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
A History of English Reflexive Pronouns
Author | : Elly van Gelderen |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027227607 |
Download A History of English Reflexive Pronouns Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and Middle English texts showing a person split between first, second, and third person pronouns. Extending an analysis by Reinhart & Reuland, the author argues that the 'strength' of certain pronominal features (Case, person, number) differs cross-linguistically and that parametric variation accounts for the changes in English. The framework used is Minimalist, and Interpretable and Uninterpretable features are seen as the key to explaining the change from a synthetic to an analytic language.
A History of English Reflexive Pronouns Related Books
Pages: 302
Pages: 138
Pages: 146
Pages: 0
Pages: 72