Meaning and Grammar: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 1992

Meaning and Grammar

Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

Edited by: Michel Kefer and Johan van der Auwera

Volume 10 in the series Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110851656

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Part I. General considerations
Reflections on the history of the study of universale: the example of the partes orationis Georg Bossong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Universals, explanations and pragmatics Hartmut Haberland and Lars Heltoft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Isomorphic, anisomorphic, and heteromorphic universale John E. Joseph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Part II. Syntactic categories and constructions
Towards a typology of voice Ineke Brus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Non-verbal predicability Kees Hengeveld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Impersonal constructions as a strategy for second-order predication Zbigniew Kański Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Polarization as a universal of linguistic organization Juan Carlos Moreno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Towards a semantic typology of language Franz Müller-Gotama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
A hierarchy of main predicate encoding Leon Stassen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
On explaining double object constructions Lieve Van de Walle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
“Nouny” and “verby” adjectivale: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions Harrie Wetzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Part III. Morphemes and lexical items
Demonstratives and the localist hypothesis Walter De Mulder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Phraseological universale: theoretical and applied aspects Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Scopal quantifiers: some universale of lexical effability David Gil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Semantic Integrality: a universal semiotic feature of language and perception Yishai Tobin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Foreground and background: Weinrich against Labov Carl Vetters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Lexical universale and universals of grammar Anna Wierzbicka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Author Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
Language Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	422
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	430

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2013
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 427
Illustrations
- Other: Zahlr. Abb.
Keywords: Sprachliche Universalien; Morphem; Einfacher Satz; Prädikat

eBook

Published: July 31, 2013
ISBN: 9783110851656

Hardcover

Published: March 1, 1992
ISBN: 9783110128055