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In:Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change: Studies in honor of Henning Andersen
Edited by Lars Heltoft, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 345] 2019
► pp. 395–409

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Changes of tense and modality in Late Mediaeval Slovene

Transference, extension or both?

Published online: 18 June 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.345.19gvo
Abstract
The paper analyses the typology of change processes proposed by Andersen (2001, 2006) by minutely investigating semantic and pragmatic properties of temporal categories in the earliest Slovene texts, which emerged under German cultural influence, but preserved primacy of system-motivated developments.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Slovene between the Freising fragments and the Rateče manuscript
    • 2.1The past tenses in the Freising fragments
    • 2.2The Rateče manuscript
  • 3.Trubar’s Catechismus 1550: How much did Luther’s Catechismus influence Trubar’s Slovene
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
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