TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skrzypek,Dominika
AU  - Jaworski,Rafał
AU  - Piotrowska,Alicja
TI  - The Diachrony of Definiteness in North Germanic
T2  - Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics
SN  - 9789004463684
AV  - PD1637 
U1  - 439/.5 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL, 
KW  - Danish language
KW  - Article
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - Scandinavia
KW  - Icelandic language
KW  - Scandinavian languages
KW  - Swedish language
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter --; Preliminary Material; Authors Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska, and Rafał Jaworski --; Copyright Page; Authors Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska, and Rafał Jaworski --; Abbreviations; Authors Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska, and Rafał Jaworski --; Chapter 1 Introduction; Authors Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska, and Rafał Jaworski --; Chapter 2 Reference in Discourse and Models of Article Grammaticalization; Authors Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska, and Rafał Jaworski --; Chapter 3 Sources, Methods and Tools; Authors Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska, and Rafał Jaworski --; Chapter 4 The Diachrony of (In)definiteness-A Quantitative Study; Authors Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska, and Rafał Jaworski --; Chapter 5 Grammaticalization Models Revisited-A Qualitative Analysis; Authors Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska, and Rafał Jaworski --; Chapter 6 Discussion and Conclusions; Authors Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska, and Rafał Jaworski --; Back Matter --; Sources; Authors Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska, and Rafał Jawors --; References; Authors Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska, and Rafał Jaworski --; Index; Authors Dominika Skrzypek, Alicja Piotrowska, and Rafał Jaworski
N2  - "This book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in Danish, Swedish and Icelandic, as documented in a choice of extant texts from 1200-1550. These three North Germanic languages show different development patterns in the rise of articles, despite the common origin, but each reveals interdependencies between the two processes. The matter is approached from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. The statistical analysis provides an improved overview on article grammaticalization, focusing on the factors at the basis of such process. The in-depth qualitative analysis of longer text passages places the crucial stage of the definite article grammaticalization with the so-called indirect anaphoric reference"--
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004463684
ER  -