GERMAN

Das Präfix gi- im Althochdeutschen und Altsächsischen: Eine Neubewertung seiner Bedeutung für das Tempus- und Aspektsystem

By Fabian Fleißner

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2023
ISBN
9783111040387, 9783111040233
DOI
10.1515/9783111040387
Language
german
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1466519 bytes)
Series
Studia Linguistica Germanica; 143
Pages
286\0
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-21 00:53:53

Description

The degradation of the verbal prefix gi- is considered essential for the development of the modern German tense system in Germanic language history research. The present study undertakes a re-evaluation and shows, on the basis of a corpus analysis of Old High German and Old Saxon, that the spheres of action of Old Germanic prefiguring are not to be found in the area of aspect and tense, but rather in the category of diathesis.

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