A History of English Reflexive Pronouns
A History of English Reflexive Pronouns

Author: Elly van Gelderen

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9789027227607

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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.

Intensifiers in English and German
Intensifiers in English and German

Author: Peter Siemund

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1134604483

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This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself and so on, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written. The study investigates the syntax and semantics of these expressions and provides a thorough account of a much neglected grammatical domain. Given that the approach is both descriptive and analytic, the book will be of interest to linguists, grammar writers and teachers of English and German alike.

The English Language
The English Language

Author: R. G. Latham

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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The present work was laid before the public, with the intention of representing in a form as systematic as the extent of the subject would allow, those views concerning the structure and relations of the English language, which amongst such scholars as had studied them with the proper means and opportunities, were then generally received; and which, so being received, might take their stand as established and recognized facts. With the results of modern criticism, as applied to his native tongue, it was conceived that an educated Englishman should be familiar. To this extent the special details of the language were exhibited; and to this extent the work was strictly a Grammar of the English Language.

A History of the Reflective Pronouns in the English Language
A History of the Reflective Pronouns in the English Language

Author: Gerhard E. Penning

Publisher:

Published: 2020-04-22

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780371760192

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