: Ferdinand von Mengden
: Cardinal Numerals Old English from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110220353
: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 177.10
:
: Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
: English
: 342
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The book embeds an analysis of the Old English numeral system and its particularities into a broader, cross-linguistic discussion and provides a theoretical framework for the general study of numeral systems. A novel perspective on the morphosyntactic behaviour of numerals allows the author to test and refine some long standing tenets in the study of numerals.


< >Ferdinand von Mengden, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Acknowledgements5
Table of contents7
Abbreviations12
Introduction15
Chapter I. Linguistic numeral systems26
Chapter II. The numeral system of Old English86
Chapter III. Complex numerals143
Chapter IV. Numeral constructions in Old English192
Chapter V. The word class ‘cardinal numeral’262
Concluding remarks300
References308
Subject index334
Author index341