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The Old/New High German hybrid noun wı ̄b/Weib 'woman; wife' is of keen interest for the study of agreement: it is grammatically neuter but refers to women, so that its agreement targets can take neuter or feminine forms, resulting in formal or semantic agreement, respectively. In this diachronic study, agreeing forms are analyzed in twelve texts/corpora representing all historical stages of German from the 9 th to the 20 th century. The data is interpreted using a modified version of the Agreement Hierarchy. The results suggest that semantic agreement reached a peak in late Old and Middle High German. The general development is not linear, but changes always move along the Agreement Hierarchy.

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2012

Language

DE

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)