Index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Section I. “From pragmatic to semantic definiteness”
5. A complex grammaticalization scenario for the definite article 17
6. The grammaticalization of the definite article in German 43
7. What genericity reveals about the establishment of the definite determiner in German 75
8. Section II. “Syntactic contexts, cognition and grammaticalization”
9. The role of the definite article in the rise of the German Framing Principle 97
10. Cliticization of definite articles to prepositions in Middle High German – early stages of grammaticalization? 129
11. Absence as evidence 161
12. Section III. “From definite into onymic article – and finally onymic classifier”
13. The rise of the onymic article in Early New High German 199
14. Die Capital – der Astra – das Adler 227
15. Index 251