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Cardinal Numerals: Old English from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Topics in English Linguistics, 67) by Ferdinand von Mengden is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Cardinal Numerals: Old English from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Topics in English Linguistics, 67) about?
The book embeds a description and an analysis of the Old English numeral system into a broader, cross-linguistic discussion. It provides a theoretical framework for the study of numerals and numeral systems of natural languages, bridging the gap between recent findings in the cognitive sciences on numeracy and the known typological generalisations on cardinal numerals. The Old English numeral system shows a number of peculiarities not found in the present-day languages of Europe. Its detailed description is therefore an ideal locus for studying the features of linguistic number expressions in terms of their morpho-syntactic properties and of the structure of numeral systems. The approach is innovative in that it combines a detailed analysis of the numeral system with the analysis of the grammatical properties of cardinal numerals. For the description of Old English, the study focuses on aspects of information structure and of referent identification in quantificational constructions. This leads to a novel perspective on the language-internal variation in the agreement patterns between numerals and quantified nouns, allowing the author to test and refine some long standing tenets in
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- Author
- Ferdinand von Mengden
- Publisher
- De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786612714887
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Historical Fiction, Linguistics