{"product_id":"grammaticalization-paths-of-english-and-high-german-existential-constructions-a-corpus-based-study-9783034300216","title":"Grammaticalization Paths of English and High","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExistential constructions are a fundamental feature of many Indo-European languages, and constructions with non-referential subjects have developed in all of the latter, albeit at different stages in their histories. \u003cbr\u003e High German does not feature a prototypical existential construction that is equivalent in syntactic and pragmatic function and semantic meaning to the English existential \u003ci\u003ethere\u003c\/i\u003e-construction. How did a prototypical existential structure originate in English? Why is it that High German has never developed such a construction? Has it ever shown a tendency towards developing one? How did two closely related languages such as English and High German come to differ so much with respect to these constructions? \u003cbr\u003e By means of investigating a variety of historical and contemporary data this study shows that not only semantic, pragmatic and syntactic factors are involved, which decide the choice of a certain construction, but also very much the more general different linguistic development that the two languages underwent in the course of time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: The Beginnings. Towards a Historical Explanation of the Difference between English and High German Existential Constructions: Word Order in the History of English - The Derivation of the English ETC - Word Order in the History of High German - The Derivation of the High German Existential \u003ci\u003eda\u003c\/i\u003e-Construction - The Derivation of High German ‘es’-Constructions – ETCs in Modern English: Syntactic Classification - Semantic Classification - Pragmatic Approach – The Modern High German Counterparts: The Status of \u003ci\u003ees\u003c\/i\u003e in ModHG - Syntactic Approach to the High German Counterparts - Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches to the ModHG Counterparts.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043604398423,"sku":"9783034300216","price":72.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783034300216.jpg?v=1750958843","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/grammaticalization-paths-of-english-and-high-german-existential-constructions-a-corpus-based-study-9783034300216","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}