A corpus-based study of the human impersonal pronoun "('n) mens" in Afrikaans : Compared to "men" and "een mens" in Dutch
This article compares the grammaticalizing human impersonal pronoun ('n) mens in Afrikaans to fully grammaticalized men and non-grammaticalized een mens in Dutch. It is shown that 'n mens and een mens can still be used lexically, unlike mens and men, and that ('n) mens and een mens are restricted to non-referential indefinite, universal-internal uses while men exhibits the whole range of (non-) referential indefinite ones. Despite the latter’s presence in the earliest Afrikaans data, it is argued not to have influenced the development of ('n) mens. This pronoun and Dutch een mens are also foun... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Journal article |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26663715 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/124476/ |