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dc.contributor.authorKamińska, Annaen
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-12T11:20:18Z
dc.date.available2015-06-12T11:20:18Z
dc.date.issued2007-12-18en
dc.identifier.issn1731-7533en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/9544
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents an example of a historical study based on comparable corpora. It aims to analyse and compare the distribution of different parts of speech in Old English and Old High German, thus providing a quantitative basis for further conclusions concerning different patterns of the development of those two West-Germanic languages. A particular attention has been devoted to the frequencies of prepositions and pronouns, as there are considerable differences between the languages in this respect. In addition, the article is a an attempt to show the importance and relevance of computational data for contrastive historical linguistics and their role in supporting or disproving traditional theories.en
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegoen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesResearch in Language;5en
dc.rightsThis content is open access.en
dc.subjectword classes distributionen
dc.subjectOld Englishen
dc.subjectOld High Germanen
dc.subjectWest-Germanicen
dc.subjectcontrastive analysisen
dc.subjectdistribution of pronounsen
dc.subjectdistribution of prepositionsen
dc.subjectsubject omissionen
dc.subjectinflectional vs. analyticen
dc.titleDistribution of Word Classes in Old English and Old High German: A Preliminary Contrastive Study Based on The Battle of Maldon, Hildebrandslied and Ludwigslieden
dc.page.number135-146en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationUniversity of Łódźen
dc.identifier.eissn2083-4616
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dc.identifier.doi10.2478/v10015-007-0005-3en


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