In:Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side Roads
Edited by Renata Szczepaniak and Johanna Flick
[Studies in Language Variation 23] 2020
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 8 April 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.23.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction1
Johanna Flick
Renata Szczepaniak
Section I.“From pragmatic to semantic definiteness”
A complex grammaticalization scenario for the definite article: The
interplay of different article forms17
Eva Schlachter
The grammaticalization of the definite article in German: From
demonstratives to weak definites43
Ulrike Demske
What genericity reveals about the establishment of the definite
determiner in German75
Svetlana Petrova
Section II.“Syntactic contexts, cognition and grammaticalization”
The role of the definite article in the rise of the German Framing
Principle: A comparative study of verbal and nominal constructions in the
Old High German Muspilli and the Old English Dream
of the Rood97
Elke Ronneberger-Sibold
Cliticization of definite articles to prepositions in Middle High
German – early stages of grammaticalization? A qualitative study129
Sandra Waldenberger
Absence as evidence – Determination and coordination ellipsis in
conjoined noun phrases in (Early) New High German161
Antje Dammel
Section III.“From definite into onymic article – and finally onymic classifier”
The rise of the onymic article in Early New High German – Areal factors
and the triggering effect of bynames199
Mirjam Schmuck
227
Damaris Nübling
Index251
