The definite determiner in Early Middle English: What happened with þe?
Description
This paper offers new data bearing on the question of when English developed a definite article, distinct from the distal demonstrative. It focuses primarily on one criterion that has been used in dating this development, namely the inability of þe (Modern English the, the refl ex of the demonstrative se) to be used as a pronoun. I argue that this criterion is not a satisfactory one and propose a treatment of þe as a form which could occupy either the head D of DP or the specifier of DP. This...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2016 |
Type: | Book chapter |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/108896 |
Book Title: | Let us have articles betwixt us – Papers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics in Honour of Johanna L. Wood |
Access Rights: | Open Access Open Access |
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