The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries ISBN:9789027228307
学術書籍 言語学 (John Benjaminsシリーズリスト) Studies in Language Companion Series
The Diachrony of Word Class Peripheries
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Description
Word classes of a language are usually not homogeneous groups of lexemes that share the same morphological and syntactic properties completely. Rather, lexemes are usually grouped together that have some basic commonalities but may differ in detail, e.g., regarding their inflectional behaviour. In many cases, one can identify within a word class a large number of lexemes that conform to a certain morphological or syntactic pattern (often referred to as “core members”) whilst there is only a comparatively small number of deviants (“peripheral members”). Examples abound: borrowings (in several word classes) may differ grammatically from native words, some complex verbs evade certain syntactic slots (such as verb-second position in German), mass and proper nouns differ grammatically from (other) nouns, and so on. In this volume, we focus on the diachrony of such phenomena. We consider that the study of change and stability can be particularly helpful in furthering our understanding of the diversity within word classes concerning, for example, the motivation for divergent grammatical properties.
Contents:
Chapter 1. A diachronic perspective on word classes and their peripheries
Christian Zimmer and Tanja Ackermann | pp. 1–16
Chapter 2. Diachronic evidence for Spanish object mass nouns as a peripheral category
Desiree Kleineberg and Wiltrud Mihatsch | pp. 17–59
Chapter 3. Adjectival adverbs or adverbial adjectives? How to explain synchrony with diachrony
Katharina Paul and Marco Coniglio | pp. 60–80
Chapter 4. Relational adjectives as a phantom in the history of German? A contrastive corpus study of Old and early New High German
Martina Werner, Nina C. Rastinger and Sophia M. Beiter | pp. 81–100
Chapter 5. German noun-participle combinations as peripheral adjectives
Carlotta J. Huebener | pp. 101–125
Chapter 6. Peripheral members of a peripheral class: Cardinal numerals and dynamic word classes
Ferdinand von Mengden | pp. 126–156
Chapter 7. The rise of the pseudo-verb category in Arabic
Maris Camilleri | pp. 157–183
Chapter 8. A diachronic perspective on peripheral verbs in German
Tanja Ackermann, Christian R. Forche and Christian Zimmer | pp. 184–205
Chapter 9. Iconic words as a peripheral (lexical) group: A diachronic approach
Maria Flaksman | pp. 206–249