Ebook: Cardinal Numerals: Old English from a Cross-linguistic Perspective
Author: Ferdinand von Mengden
- Series: Topics in English Linguistics 67
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
- City: Berlin ; New York
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
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The book embeds an analysis of the Old English numeral system and its particularities into a broader, cross-linguistic discussion and provides a theoretical framework for the general study of numeral systems. A novel perspective on the morphosyntactic behaviour of numerals allows the author to test and refine some long standing tenets in the study of numerals.
Content: Introduction --
1. Linguistic numeral systems --
2. The numeral system of Old English --
3. Complex numerals --
4. Numeral constructions in Old English --
5. The word class 'cardinal numeral' --
Concluding remarks --
References.
Abstract: The book embeds an analysis of the Old English numeral system and its particularities into a broader, cross-linguistic discussion and provides a theoretical framework for the general study of numeral systems. A novel perspective on the morphosyntactic behaviour of numerals allows the author to test and refine some long standing tenets in the study of numerals