Eintrag

Titel

The discourse-functional crystallization of DP from the original demonstrative

Personen

Werner Abraham

Jahr

2007

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Seiten

241 - 256

In

Nominal Determination. Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence

Schlagwörter

Demonstrativ

Abstract

In Abraham (this volume), grammatical determiners of various sorts were discussed in regard of the extent to which such determiners co-define anaphors in contexts reaching beyond the single clause. Making use of its findings, the present discussion shows how the defi nite article emerged in the history of German from the determiner homonym and how various steps in their grammaticalization paths invite certain generalizations of diachronic change.

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