Adjectives as nouns, mainly as attested in [i]Boethius[/i] translations from Old to Modern English and in Modern German

Know about the book -

Adjectives as nouns, mainly as attested in [i]Boethius[/i] translations from Old to Modern English and in Modern German is written by Anne Aschenbrenner and published by Herbert Utz Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3831643652 (ISBN 10) and 9783831643653 (ISBN 13).

Adjectives can be used as nouns in English as well as in German. In Modern German, however, they can assume a greater variety of forms than is possible in Modern English, partly as a result of the loss of inflectional endings in English; e.g. Modern German [i]gut – das Gut, das Gute, der Gute, die Gute, die Guten, die Güter[/i] (also [i]die Güte, die Gutheit)[/i] versus Modern English [i]good – the good, the goods[/i] (also [i]goodness).[/i] With regard to this phenomenon, two issues deserve attention: first of all, the historical development of adjectives as nouns in English and, secondly, their linguistic classification. The merit of this study is that it undertakes the first detailed analysis of this phenomenon with the aid of corpus material. The investigation leads to intriguing conclusions that combine several linguistic levels of description, and that break with traditional concepts of rigid word-classes in favor of a theory of degrees of »adjectiviness« and »nouniness«.