COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CONCESSIVE SUBORDINATE CLAUSES IN EARLY NEW HIGH GERMAN AND CONTEMPORARY GERMAN
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https://doi.org/10.30890/2567-5273.2025-37-03-046Keywords:
concessive clause, Early New High German, modern German, syntactic evolution, grammaticalization, concessive conjunctions, diachronic linguistics.Abstract
The study explores the structural, semantic, and functional evolution of concessive subordinate clauses in German, comparing their use in the Early New High German (ENHG) period (14th–16th centuries) with their modern counterparts. By analyzing historicaMetrics
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