M Filppula, J Klemola, H Paulasto - 2008 - taylorfrancis.com
This book provides the first comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. Drawing on both original research and existing work, it covers both the …
M Haspelmath - Linguistic Discovery, 2008 - pure.mpg.de
This paper identifies a number of empirically observable universals of reflexive marking that concern the existence of a special reflexive pronoun and the length of the marker that is …
This book, which represents a revised version of my Ph. D. dissertation, is concerned with the representation and interpretation of pronominal elements and focuses on issues at the …
Title description This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (eg myself), the loss of …
This innovative volume offers a comprehensive account of the study of language change in verb meaning in the history of the English language. Integrating both the author's previous …
This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins …
Intensifiers such as himself/herself in English, ipse/ipsa in Latin, stesso/stessa in Italian, sam/samá in Russian, or selbst in German are most easily identifiable in terms of their …
There are certain puzzling person and number differences in the history of English pronouns: some lose morphologically distinct Case before others; some occur with verbs …
English self-forms and related words from other Germanic languages (eg Dutch zelf, Swedish själv, etc.) are used in two different functions: as 'intensifiers'(eg The president …