Eintrag

Titel

The noun phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change

Personen

Petra Sleeman, Harry C. B. Perridon

Jahr

2011

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Reihe

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Band

171

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Romanisch
Verschiedene

Schlagwörter

Kontrastiv
Nominalgruppe
Sprachwandel

Beiträge

• Wood: Noun phrase structure and movement. A cross-linguistic comparison of such/sådan/solch and so/så/so
• Alexiadou: Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic nominalizations
• Perridon: The noun phrase in Germanic and Romance: common developments and differences
• Stroh-Wollin: A semantic approach to noun phrase structure and the definite-indefinite distinction in German und Romance

Abstract

One of the recurrent questions in historical linguistics is to what extent languages can borrow grammar from other languages. It seems for instance hardly likely that each 'average European' language developed a definite article all by itself, without any influence from neighbouring languages. It is, on the other hand, by no means clear what exactly was borrowed, since the way in which definiteness is expressed differs greatly among the various Germanic and Romance languages and dialects. One of the main aims of this volume is to shed some light on the question of what is similar and what is different in the structure of the noun phrase of the various Romance and Germanic languages and dialects, and what causes this similarity or difference.

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