1. Nominal Determination. Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence.
- Author
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STARK, Elisabeth, Elisabeth LEISS and Werner ABRAHAM (eds.) and STARK, Elisabeth, Elisabeth LEISS and Werner ABRAHAM (eds.)
- Subjects
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Nominals, Grammar, Comparative and general--Determiners--Congresses, Grammar, Comparative and general--Determiners, Definiteness (Linguistics), Definiteness (Linguistics)--Congresses, Grammar, Comparative and general--Nominals--Congresses
- Abstract
Three different nominal word orders in Old English through present-day English are investigated, in order to determine whether English has an'adjectival'possessive similar to Modern Italian. It is argued that the orders a) demonstrative, possessive, noun and b) possessive, demonstrative, noun represent different syntactic constructions, with different paths of development. It is concluded that the a) order represents three different constructions: i) apposition, ii) a possible'adjectival'possessive, no longer found in Middle English, iii) an Early Modern English focus construction using th.
- Published
- 2007