Ebook: A history of English reflexive pronouns : person, self, and interpretability
Author: Elly van Gelderen
- Genre: Linguistics // Foreign: English
- Tags: Языки и языкознание, Английский язык, История английского языка / History of the English Language
- Series: Linguistik aktuell Bd. 39
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co
- City: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
- Language: English
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This book brings together a number of seemingly distinct phenomena in the history of English: the introduction of special reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself), the loss of verbal agreement and pro-drop, and the disappearance of morphological Case. It provides vast numbers of examples from Old and Middle English texts showing a person split between first, second, and third person pronouns. Extending an analysis byRead more...