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Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Functional Main and Side RoadsEdited by Renata Szczepaniak and Johanna Flick
[Studies in Language Variation 23] 2020
► pp. 75–94
This contribution deals with the rise of the definite determiner in generic noun phrases in German. It calls attention to a by now neglected part of the diachronic development of the determiner system of German and provides a special contribution on the subject, building upon newly collected, first-hand corpus data and its interpretation in the context of the current semantic debate on genericity.