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Veröffentlichung:	Juni 2009
Genre:	Sprache
ISBN:	9783034300216
EAN-Code:	9783034300216
Verlag:	Peter Lang
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Serie:	#345 - Europäische Hochschulschriften (Reihe 21): Linguistik / Linguistics / Linguistique
Dimensionen:	H 220 mm / B 150 mm / D 21 mm
Gewicht:	524 gr
Seiten:	382
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Inhalt:

Existential 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. High German does not feature a prototypical existential construction that is equivalent in syntactic and pragmatic function and semantic meaning to the English existential there-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? 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.