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oapen-20.500.12657-497682021-07-06T13:55:17Z The Diachrony of Definiteness in North Germanic Skrzypek, Dominika Piotrowska, Alicja Jaworski, Rafał Computational linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFX Computational linguistics This book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in Danish, Swedish and Icelandic, as documented in a choice of extant texts from 1200-1550. These three North Germanic languages show different development patterns in the rise of articles, despite the common origin, but each reveals interdependencies between the two processes. The matter is approached from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. The statistical analysis provides an improved overview on article grammaticalization, focusing on the factors at the basis of such process. The in-depth qualitative analysis of longer text passages places the crucial stage of the definite article grammaticalization with the so-called indirect anaphoric reference. Readership: All interested in historical linguistics and North Germanic languages, in particular those with interest in the rise of definite and indefinite articles; also linguists (including undergraduates) with interest in the category of definiteness and in corpus linguistics. 2021-07-06T13:02:01Z 2021-07-06T13:02:01Z 2021 book ONIX_20210706_9789004436039_20 9789004436039 9789004463684 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49768 eng Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789004463684.pdf https://brill.com/abstract/title/58312 Brill 10.1163/9789004463684 10.1163/9789004463684 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 9789004436039 9789004463684 14 274 open access
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This book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in Danish, Swedish and Icelandic, as documented in a choice of extant texts from 1200-1550. These three North Germanic languages show different development patterns in the rise of articles, despite the common origin, but each reveals interdependencies between the two processes. The matter is approached from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. The statistical analysis provides an improved overview on article grammaticalization, focusing on the factors at the basis of such process. The in-depth qualitative analysis of longer text passages places the crucial stage of the definite article grammaticalization with the so-called indirect anaphoric reference. Readership: All interested in historical linguistics and North Germanic languages, in particular those with interest in the rise of definite and indefinite articles; also linguists (including undergraduates) with interest in the category of definiteness and in corpus linguistics.
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