Dorian Roehrs
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Quantifying Expressions in the History of German (eBook, PDF)

Syntactic reanalysis and morphological change

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This study describes the 1200-year history of German quantifying expressions like nioman anderro > niemand anderer 'nobody else', analyzing the morpho-syntactic developments within the generative framework. The quantifiers examined arose from various lexical sources/categories (nouns, adjectives, and pronouns) but all changed to adjectival quantifiers. These changes are interpreted as a novel type of upward reanalysis from head to specifier, which we associate with degrammaticalization driven by analogy. As for the quantified phrases, most appeared in the genitive in Old High German, indicatin...

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