System collapse, system rebirth : the demonstrative pronouns of English, 900-1350 and the birth of the definite article

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    • Millar, Robert McColl

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System collapse, system rebirth : the demonstrative pronouns of English, 900-1350 and the birth of the definite article

Robert McColl Millar

Peter Lang, 2000

  • : (U.S.)

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

The author of this study addresses this problem, focusing on the following issues: <br>- the breakdown of inflectional morphology in the paradigms of the demonstrative pronouns: ambiguity in ending<br>- the breakdown of grammatically significant root vowel distinctions in the paradigms of the demonstrative pronouns: ambiguity in form<br>- the development of an absolute formal distinction between the and that: paradigm fissure<br>- whether any or all of these developments have been caused, or encouraged, by contact between Old English and Old Norse.

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