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One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likel
Adjectives in Germanic and Romance
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Petra Sleeman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and although both have developed the adjective as a separate syntactic
New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond
Language: en
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Authors: Johannes Kabatek
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determ
Quantifying Expressions in the History of German
Language: en
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This study describes the 1200-year history of German quantifying expressions like nîoman anderro > niemand anderer ‘nobody else’, analyzing the morpho-synt
The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics
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Categories: Foreign Language Study
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The Germanic language family ranges from national languages with standardized varieties, including German, Dutch and Danish, to minority languages with relative