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1 online resource |
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Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics |
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Brill's studies in historical linguistics.
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Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Morphosyntactic Change; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Case; 2.3. Number and Gender; 2.4. The Effects of Language Change on Case Systems; 2.5. The Popular Reception of the Manifestations of Morphosyntactic Change; 2.6. Codification; 2.7. Summary of Chapter 2; Chapter 3. The Genitive Case; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. A Typology of the Genitive; 3.3. The Genitive in the Germanic Languages; 3.4. The Constructions; 3.5. Summary of Chapter 3; Chapter 4. Data and Methodology; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Theoretical Basis; 4.3. Data Sources; 4.4. The Databases |
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4.5. Summary of Chapter 4Chapter 5. The Dutch Genitive; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. The Genitive in Old and Middle Dutch; 5.3. The Precept: Standardisation and the Genitive Case; 5.4. The Genitive Case in 16th -- 19th Century Dutch: A Diachronic Portrayal; 5.5. The Genitive Case in Modern Dutch: A Synchronic Portrayal; 5.6. Other Surviving Remnants of Genitive Morphology; 5.7. Conclusion; 5.8. Summary of Chapter 5; Chapter 6. The German Genitive; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. The Genitive until the 17th Century; 6.3. The Genitive Case in 17th -- 19th Century German: A Diachronic Portrayal |
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6.4. The Genitive Case in Modern German6.5. Exapted Fragments of the Genitive Case; 6.6. The Precept: Standardisation, Prescriptivism and the Genitive Case; 6.7. Conclusion; 6.8. Summary of Chapter 6; Chapter 7. Codification and Morphosyntactic Change; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Morphosyntactic Change Affecting the Genitive in the Data; 7.3. The Relationship between Codification and Morphosyntactic Change; 7.4. A Theoretical Account; 7.5. Summary of Chapter 7; Chapter 8. Conclusions and Closing Remarks; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. The Findings of the Investigation; 8.3. Methodological Considerations |
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Appendix 1: Primary SourcesDutch; German; The Texts of the Early Modern Dutch Corpus; Appendix 2: Large Data Tables and Charts; References; Index |
| Summary |
In The Genitive Case in Dutch and German, Alan K. Scott offers an account of the tension between morphosyntactic change and codification, focusing on the effect that codification has had on the genitive case and alternative constructions in both languages |
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English |
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Print version record |
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German language -- Possessives
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Dutch language -- Possessives
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Dutch language.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphosyntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Possessives.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1306210194 |
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9781306210195 |
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