series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

Published by De Gruyter Mouton

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

Edited by: Jeff Good, Kristine A. Hildebrandt, Yaron Matras and Rachel Nordlinger

ISSN: 0933-761X

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Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: the relationship between the amazing diversity of languages and the profound unity of language. Only if the true extent of typological divergence is recognized can universal laws be formulated. In recent years it has become more and more evident that a broad range of languages of radically different types must be carefully analyzed before general theories are possible. Typological comparison of this kind is now at the centre of linguistic research.

The series empirical approaches to language typology presents a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. The distinctive feature of the series is its markedly empirical orientation. All conclusions to be reached are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. General problems are focused on from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Special emphasis is given to the analysis of phenomena from little known languages, which shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

The series is open to contributions from different theoretical persuasions. It thus reflects the methodological pluralism that characterizes the present situation. Care is taken that all volumes be accessible to every linguist and, moreover, to every reader specializing in some domain related to human language.

A deeper understanding of human language in general, based on a detailed analysis of typological diversity among individual languages, is fundamental for many sciences, not only for linguists. Therefore, this series has proven to be indispensable in every research library, be it public or private, which has a specialization in language and the language sciences.

To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

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book: Prominence in Austronesian

Book Ahead of Publication 2024

Prominence in Austronesian

Bethwyn Evans, Åshild Næss, Jozina Vander Klok

Volume 66 in this series

The concept of prominence or salience is a key in how we understand the organization of grammar and patterns of language use. However, it is not itself a phenomenon of language, but of cognition and perception, which makes it difficult to define in a way that is suitable for cross-linguistic analysis.

A crucial step in understanding the relevance of prominence for linguistic description and theory is to gain an overview of the different ways in which it is encoded in linguistic structures across languages. The volume tackles this challenge by focusing on the varying roles that prominence plays in the grammars of Austronesian languages. The individual chapters present descriptions of the grammatical encoding of prominence in particular of languages from across the breadth of the family, and thus languages with very different typological profiles.

These descriptions form a basis for identifying trends and patterns in the role of prominence from several different perspectives, including its grammatical encoding within and across different levels of linguistic structure, and for discussing implications for our understanding of the role of prominence in grammar more generally.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110730753
ISBN:: 9783110730753
ISBN:: 9783110730814
ISBN:: 9783110735413
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Languages of the Pacific Islands
Subject:: Austronesian Languages
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Complex Adpositions in European Languages

Book 2020

Complex Adpositions in European Languages

A Micro-Typological Approach to Complex Nominal Relators

Benjamin Fagard, José Pinto de Lima, Dejan Stosic, Elena Smirnova

Volume 65 in this series

While much attention has been devoted to simple nominal relators, especially prepositions and case markers, complex nominal relators have not yet been the focus of a systematic and cross-linguistic study.
The chapters of this volume provide not only a working definition of such constructions, but also a description of complex adpositions and other complex nominal relators in a variety of European languages, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European, including some languages for which this phenomenon had received little attention, such as Breton and Albanian. Building on synchronic and diachronic corpus-based investigations, the authors show commonalities and specificities of these linguistic items across languages, trying to explain why and how they emerged.
The research presented in this volume confirms the wide-spread use of complex adpositions in Europe, and the data reviewed in the final discussion suggests it might be the same in other parts of the world, as well. This book thus offers not only detailed descriptions of complex nominal relators in fifteen languages, but also indications of what to look for in other languages, and how to distinguish between a syntactically free sequence and a genuine complex nominal relator.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110686647
ISBN:: 9783110686647
ISBN:: 9783110686791
ISBN:: 9783110676938
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Associated Motion

Book 2021

Associated Motion

Antoine Guillaume, Harold Koch

Volume 64 in this series

This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.

　

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110692099
ISBN:: 9783110692099
ISBN:: 9783111104089
ISBN:: 9783110692129
ISBN:: 9783110692006
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Expression of Phasal Polarity in African Languages

Book 2021

The Expression of Phasal Polarity in African Languages

Raija L. Kramer

Volume 63 in this series

The book provides insights into the systems and strategies of expressing the Phasal Polarity (PhP) concepts ALREADY, STILL, NOT YET and NO LONGER in African languages. Special emphasis is laid on careful examination of the functional spectrum and paradigmatic affiliation of PhP expressions. The book challenges hypotheses and established assumptions in the typological literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110646290
ISBN:: 9783110646290
ISBN:: 9783111087900
ISBN:: 9783110642537
ISBN:: 9783110627510
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Languages of Africa
Subject:: Bantu Languages
Subject:: African Languages, other
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Binominal Lexemes in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Book 2022

Binominal Lexemes in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Towards a Typology of Complex Lexemes

Steve Pepper, Francesca Masini, Simone Mattiola

Volume 62 in this series

The typological, contrastive, and descriptive studies in this volume investigate the strategies employed by the world’s languages to create complex denotations by combining two noun-like elements, together with the kinds of semantic relation they involve, and their acquisition by children.

The term ‘binominal lexeme’ is employed to cover both noun-noun compounds and a range of other naming strategies, including prepositional compounds, relational compounds, construct forms, genitival constructions, and more.

Overall, the volume suggests a new, cross-linguistic approach to the study of complex lexeme formation that cuts across the traditional boundaries between syntax, morphology, and lexicon.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673494
ISBN:: 9783110673494
ISBN:: 9783110673524
ISBN:: 9783110640878
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Participles

Book 2019

Participles

A Typological Study

Ksenia Shagal

Volume 61 in this series

The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in adnominal modification. Participles are examined with respect to several morphological and syntactic parameters, and are shown to be a versatile cross-linguistic category. The book is of interest to language typologists and descriptive linguists.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110633382
ISBN:: 9783110633382
ISBN:: 9783110629934
ISBN:: 9783110627527
ISBN:: 9783110764338
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Cross-Categorial Classification

Book 2022

Cross-Categorial Classification

Nouns and Verbs in Eegimaa

Serge Sagna

Volume 60 in this series

Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.) are classified using the same linguistic means as nouns are rare. This typologically unusual phenomenon is found in some Atlantic (Niger-Congo) languages, including Jóola languages like Eegimaa, Fogny and Kwatay, where several different noun class/gender prefixes (NCPs) are used to classify both nouns and verbs. In this book, it is argued following Sagna (2008), that these parallel morphosyntactic classifications in the nominal domain and verbal domains also reflect parallel semantic categorisation of entities and events. The main topics investigated in this book are word class flexibility between nouns and verbs, non-finiteness, noun class/gender (where morphological classes are analysed separately from agreement classes) and the semantic principles underlying the categorisation of entities and events. One of the central findings proposed in this book is that instances of NCP alternations on non-finite verbs reflect strategies of event delimitation. This book will be of interest to scholars investigating parts-of-speech systems, finiteness, systems of nominal and verbal classification, and linguistic categorization.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110636321
ISBN:: 9783110636321
ISBN:: 9783110595062
ISBN:: 9783110632767
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Languages of Africa
Subject:: African Languages, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Epistemic Modalities and Evidentiality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Book 2018

Epistemic Modalities and Evidentiality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Zlatka Guentchéva

Volume 59 in this series

This volume explores phenomena which come under the heading of epistemic modalities and evidentiality in more or less well-known languages (Germanic, Romance, Balto-Slavic, Hungarian, Tibetan, Lakandon and Yucatec Maya, Arwak-Chibchan Kogi and Ika). It reveals cross-linguistic variations in the structuring of these vast fields of enquiry and clearly demonstrates the relevance and interplay of multiple factors involved in the analysis of these two conceptual domains. Although the contributions present diverging descriptive traditions, they are nonetheless within the broad domain of functional-typological linguistics and give access to distinct yet comparable approaches. They all converge around a number of key issues: modal verbs; the relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality; the relationship of modal notions with some tense and aspect notions; the notions of (inter)subjectivity, commitment and (dis)engagement; the prosodic variation of modal adverbs, the diachronic connections between negation and evidential markers, the connection with mirativity. The volume is of interest to linguists and advanced graduate students working in general and theoretical linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, cognition, and typology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110572261
ISBN:: 9783110572261
ISBN:: 9783111086187
ISBN:: 9783110569889
ISBN:: 9783110524192
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Relative Clauses in Cameroonian Languages

Book 2017

Relative Clauses in Cameroonian Languages

Structure, Function and Semantics

Gratien Gualbert Atindogbé, Rebecca Grollemund

Volume 58 in this series

This volume is a series of nine (9) contributions to our understanding of relativization strategies in eleven (11) languages of Cameroon spread into the seven (7) sub-branches of the Niger-Congo phylum: Ekoid, Mambiloid, Mamfe, Mbam, Narrow Bantu, Wide Grassfields, Yemne-Kimbi. As a productive strategy in the world’s languages, and considering the evidence that the African language are either under-described, poorly described or not described at all, investigations into the forms, structures and functions of relative clauses and relativization start filling the gap of the absence of analytical descriptive works on the topic. The papers dwelt on the construction of relative clauses, their structure and constraints, their morphosyntactic properties, how they are used to give prominence to topics or participants that are thematic in a given discourse, and to mark the boundaries of units of text, and the formal characteristics of restrictive relative clause constructions. The findings generated so far constitute an endless tank for many fields of hyphenated linguistics including general linguistics, cognitive linguist, applied psycholinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics and pragmatics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110469547
ISBN:: 9783110469547
ISBN:: 9783110467611
ISBN:: 9783110467673
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Languages of Africa
Subject:: Bantu Languages
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Complementizer Semantics in European Languages

Book 2016

Complementizer Semantics in European Languages

Kasper Boye, Petar Kehayov

Volume 57 in this series

Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110416619
ISBN:: 9783110416619
ISBN:: 9783110416510
ISBN:: 9783110610680
ISBN:: 9783110416664
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Detachments for Cohesion

Book 2015

Detachments for Cohesion

Toward an Information Grammar of Oral Languages

M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest

Volume 56 in this series

This monograph is intended as a reference book on Detachment Constructions (DECs) in the Information Structuring of oral and spoken languages. Focusing on DECs in a textual perspective, the book is an innovative contribution to the knowledge of oral and spoken languages, some of them widespread (Indo-European), others less taught (Finno-Ugric).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110349535
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034924-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034953-5
ISBN:: 9783110394511
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective

Book 2014

Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective

Eitan Grossman, Martin Haspelmath, Tonio Sebastian Richter

Volume 55 in this series

This volume presents the Egyptian-Coptic language in cross-linguistic (‘typological’) perspective. It is aimed at linguists of all stripes, especially typologists, historical linguists, and specialists in Egyptian-Coptic, Afroasiatic languages, or African languages.
Uniquely, the contributions are written by both typologists and experts of Egyptian-Coptic and typologists. The former provide case studies dealing with particular aspects of the various phases of the Egyptian-Coptic language (e.g., COLLIER on conditional constructions), while the latter situate Egyptian-Coptic data in cross-linguistic perspective (e.g., those by GUELDEMANN and GENSLER). The volume also includes an introductory section that includes an overview of the Egyptian-Coptic language (HASPELMATH), a sketch of its sociohistorical setting (GROSSMAN & RICHTER), its relationship with language typology (RICHTER), and the way in which Egyptian-Coptic data should be presented to nonspecialists, focusing on transliteration and glossing (GROSSMAN & HASPELMATH).
This is the first book to bring together language typology and the Egyptian-Coptic language in an explicit fashion.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110346510
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034639-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034651-0
ISBN:: 9783110555134
ISBN:: 9783110394597
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Languages of Africa
Subject:: African Languages, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Partitive Cases and Related Categories

Book 2014

Partitive Cases and Related Categories

Silvia Luraghi, Tuomas Huumo

Volume 54 in this series

Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conducted. Since individual partitives of different languages have been studied, there exists a basis for a more cross-linguistic approach. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap and to bring together research on partitives in different languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110346060
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034404-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034606-0
ISBN:: 9783110394573
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Typology of Motion Events

Book 2013

The Typology of Motion Events

An Empirical Study of Chinese Dialects

Carine Yuk-man Yiu

Volume 53 in this series

This comprehensive study concentrates particularly on the use of a closed set of motion verbs in five of the major dialects, including Mandarin, Wú, Hakka, Min and Cantonese. The author shows that these dialects form a continuum with some exhibiting more characteristics of a verb-framed language than the others. The phenomenon reflects the various stages of typological transformation and grammaticalization that the dialects have undergone.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110341768
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033577-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034176-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Yiddish Language Structures

Book 2013

Yiddish Language Structures

Marion Aptroot, Björn Hansen

Volume 52 in this series

Yiddish Language Structures presents ten new studies on structural aspects of Yiddish in the light of modern linguistic theories which are of interest to linguists and philologists. The contributions are examples of data-based research. They address several levels of the language system including morphology, syntax and lexicology, and put special emphasis on mechanisms of internal and contact-induced language change spanning different epochs and societal and textual strata.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339529
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033934-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033952-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: Germanic Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Alignment and Ergativity in New Indo-Aryan Languages

Book 2013

Alignment and Ergativity in New Indo-Aryan Languages

Saartje Verbeke

Volume 51 in this series

The volume investigates the different alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan and shows that the variation of alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan goes beyond the opposition between accusativity and ergativity. The book includes a thorough discussion of the concepts and terminology relating to alignment patterns.

The study draws extensively on new language data from Indo-Aryan. It includes discussions of examples taken from Hindi, Sanskrit, Apabhramsa, Asamiya, Bangla, Oriya, the Bihari languages, Nepali, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Siraiki, Poguli, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marwari, Harauti, the Hindi varieties, and Shina. The volume offers a comprehensive overview of various alignment patterns in Indo-Aryan based on a wide range of data. By focusing on lesser known Indo-Aryan languages, the study questions the central position of Hindi-Urdu in the research on ergativity. Each language is treated in its own right, with a focus on language-specific data and analyses, rather than relying on a notional format that starts with pre-established linguistic concepts. In accordance with this methodology, much attention is paid to "indirect" connections between ergative constructions and other syntactic and semantic patterns in the various languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110292671
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029253-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029267-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: European Languages, other
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Relative Constructions in European Non-Standard Varieties

Book 2011

Relative Constructions in European Non-Standard Varieties

Adriano Murelli

Volume 50 in this series

Cross-linguistic studies on relative constructions in European languages are often centred on standard varieties as described in reference grammars. This volume breaks with the tradition in that it investigates relative constructions in non-standard varieties from a multidisciplinary perspective and addresses a crucial question: what does Europe's typological panorama actually look like?

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238792
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023878-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023879-2
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages

Book 2010

Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages

Gabriele Diewald, Elena Smirnova

Volume 49 in this series

This book presents a selection of contributions to the workshop "Linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages", held at the 30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics in Bamberg (February 27-29, 2008), and additional papers, which have been especially commissioned for this volume. Its main focus lies on providing further empirical evidence about languages that have various - lexical as well as grammatical - evidential expressions.

The papers in this volume will offer a cross-linguistic perspective on this topic as they deal with a number of different language families and languages: Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian), Germanic languages (Dutch, German, English, Icelandic), Baltic and Slavic languages, Greek, Basque, and Turkish.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223972
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022396-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022397-2
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Ergativity, Valency and Voice

Book 2012

Ergativity, Valency and Voice

Gilles Authier, Katharina Haude

Volume 48 in this series

This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most of the geographical areas and linguistic families in which ergativity has been known to exist jointly with well-developed morphological voice, and some languages belonging to families in which ergativity or voice were not previously recognized or adequately described up to now.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110227734
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022772-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022773-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Sound Structure of Modern Irish

Book 2014

The Sound Structure of Modern Irish

Raymond Hickey

Volume 47 in this series

The Sound Structure of Modern Irish contains a comprehensive description of the phonology of Irish. Based on the main forms of the language, it offers an analysis of the segments and the processes in its sound system. Each section begins with a description of the area of phonology which is the subject - such as stress patterns, phonotactics, epenthesis or metathesis - and then proceeds to consider the special aspects of this subject from a theoretical and typological perspective.
The book pays particular attention to key processes in the sound system of modern Irish. The two most important of these are palatalisation and initial mutation, phenomena which are central to Irish and the analysis of which has consequences for general phonological theory.
The other main emphasis in the book is on a typological comparison of several different languages, all of which show palatalisation and/or initial mutation as part of their systems. The different forms of Celtic, Slavic languages, Romance dialects and languages along with languages such as Finnish, Fula, Nivkh and Southern Paiute are considered to find out how processes which are phonetic in origin (external sandhi) can become functionalised and integrated into the morphosyntactic system of a language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226607
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022659-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022660-7
ISBN:: 9783110369038
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Rara & Rarissima

Book 2010

Rara & Rarissima

Documenting the Fringes of Linguistic Diversity

Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw

Volume 46 in this series

The papers in this book describe and analyze rara in individual languages, covering an extraordinarily broad geographic distribution, including papers about languages from all over the globe. The range of theoretical subjects discussed shows an enormous breadth, ranging from phonology through word formation, lexical semantics to syntax and even some sociolinguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110228557
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022854-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022855-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Generative Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Rethinking Universals

Book 2010

Rethinking Universals

How Rarities Affect Linguistic Theory

Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw

Volume 45 in this series

Universals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language. Only incidentally have researchers looked at the other end of the scale. And even when they did, they mostly just noted peculiar facts as ''quirks'' or ''unusual behavior'', without making too much of an effort at explaining them beyond calling them ''exceptions'' to various rules or generalizations.

Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, is a reasonable and interesting challenge to any theory of how human language works.

The present volume for the first time compiles selected papers on the study of rare linguistic features from various fields of linguistics and from a wide range of languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220933
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022092-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022093-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Generative Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Modals in the Languages of Europe

Book 2009

Modals in the Languages of Europe

A Reference Work

Björn Hansen, Ferdinand de Haan

Volume 44 in this series

This book is the first comprehensive survey of modals and modal constructions in the languages of Europe. It is a collaborative effort between scholars from Europe and the United States, stemming from a workshop on Modals in the Languages of Europe in Valencia.

The aim of this book is to describe the properties of modals and modal constructions in the European area and to compare the systems in individual languages or language families from an areal and genetic perspective. For the sake of contrast, the book also looks at the expression of modality in some languages just outside of Europe. The book consists of fourteen chapters on modal systems in individual languages or language families, written by experts in the respective languages, and an introductory and concluding chapter, written by the editors.

The book gives both a description of the modals in the individual languages and an account of the nature and status of modals in general. It provides the reader with a theoretical account of how modals and modal constructions are grammaticalized. This theoretical account is informed by the parameters of grammaticalization of Christian Lehmann. These parameters were chosen because they are language-independent, as opposed to more language specific criteria (for instance, the NICE-criteria for English). The parameters themselves are examined as well for their suitability as part of any theory of grammaticalization.

The book thus gives readers access to a collection of data on modality that surpasses most works in this field and also provides a fresh perspective on issues of grammaticalization and language contact. It is therefore of interest to scholars of modality, language contact and areal linguistics, grammaticalization theory and typology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219210
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021920-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021921-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Epistemic Meaning

Book 2012

Epistemic Meaning

A Crosslinguistic and Functional-Cognitive Study

Kasper Boye

Volume 43 in this series

This book is intended to contribute to the clarification of the linguistic research area covered by the terms modal, evidential and epistemic. It sets out to demonstrate that on cross-linguistic grounds a hitherto overlooked epistemic meaning domain must be given due recognition in linguistic theory, on a par with domains such as time and number. The relevant domain is coherent, but at the same time complex in that it consists of two subdomains: one which comprises degree-of-certainty meanings, and one which comprises information-source meanings.

The book offers three arguments for giving recognition to such a meaning domain. The first argument concerns the clustering of linguistic expressions with epistemic meaning into morphosyntactically delimited systems of elements. The second argument has to do with the variation pertaining to the coding of epistemic meanings, as highlighted in a semantic map of epistemic expressions. The third argument turns upon the scope properties of epistemic meanings and the morphosyntactic reflections of these properties.

Finally, the book proposes a unified cognitive analysis of epistemic meaning in terms of which it attempts to account for the properties of the epistemic meaning domain as well as of individual epistemic meanings.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219036
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020438-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021903-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Coordination Relations in the Languages of Europe and Beyond

Book 2008

Coordination Relations in the Languages of Europe and Beyond

Caterina Mauri

Volume 42 in this series

This book examines the coding of the three coordination relations of combination, contrast and alternative between states of affairs on the basis of a 74 language sample, with special focus on the languages spoken in Europe. It constitutes the first systematic inquiry so far conducted on the cross-linguistic coding of coordination, as defined in cognitive and pragmatic terms. This research shows that the 'and-but-or' coding system which is typical of Central-Western Europe appears to be extremely rare outside Europe, where a great variation in the coding of coordination is attested. This cross-linguistic variation, however, is not random, but is crucially constrained by the interaction of economic principles with the semantic properties of the individual relations expressed. A fine-grained functional systematization of coordination is proposed and described by means of implicational patterns and semantic maps. This work brings together a broad cross-linguistic perspective and a detailed semantic analysis, largely based on new and comparable data collected by means of questionnaires, all accessible in the appendix of the book. It represents the first systematic attempt towards a unified typology of coordination relations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211498
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020439-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021149-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies

Book 2009

The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies

Martin Everaert, Simon Musgrave, Alexis Dimitriadis

Volume 41 in this series

This book promotes the development of linguistic databases by describing a number of successful database projects, focusing especially on cross-linguistic and typological research. It has become increasingly clear that ready access to knowledge about cross-linguistic variation is of great value to many types of linguistic research. Such a systematic body of data is essential in order to gain a proper understanding of what is truly universal in language and what is determined by specific cultural settings. Moreover, it is increasingly needed as a tool to systematically evaluate contrasting theoretical claims. The book includes a chapter on general problems of using databases to handle language data and chapters on a number of individual projects.

Note: This title was originally announced as including a CD-Rom with databases. The CD-Rom, however, was replaced by a list of URLs within the book. More information as well as links to the databases can also be found here.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198744
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019308-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019874-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Hispanisation

Book 2008

Hispanisation

The Impact of Spanish on the Lexicon and Grammar of the Indigenous Languages of Austronesia and the Americas

Thomas Stolz, Dik Bakker, Rosa Salas Palomo

Volume 39 in this series

Literally hundreds of languages world-wide have experienced direct or indirect Hispanisation during the heyday of the Spanish colonial empire. The number of languages which continue to borrow from Spanish on a daily basis is considerable especially in Latin America. This volume gives the reader a better idea of the range of contact constellations in which Spanish functions as the donor language. Moreover, the contributions to this collection of articles demonstrate that it is not only possible to compare the contact-induced processes in the (Hispanised) languages of Austronesia and the Americas. It is emphasized that one can draw far-reaching conclusions from the presented borrowing facts for the theory of language contact in general.

The volume is divided into two sections according to geographical principles: section I is devoted to contacts of Spanish in Latin America. Two contributions look at the Hispanisation of varieties of Nahuatl (Classical Nahuatl studied by Anne Jensen and modern varieties studied by José Antonio Flores Farfán). Martina Schrader-Kniffki discusses Spanish-Zapotec contacts and their relations to language mixing and purism. Luciano Giannelli and Raoul Zamponi address the issue of Hispanisms in Kuna, a language from Panama. For South America, Jorge Gómez-Rendón discusses whether or not there are constraints on lexical borrowing from Spanish into Imbabura Quichua. Suzanne Dikker studies the intertwined language Media Lengua in her attempt at redefining the notion of relexification. Section II focuses on the impact of Spanish on the languages of Austronesia and South-East Asia. Steven Roger Fischer shows that the heavy Hispanisation of Rapanui is currently being reverted. Steve Pagel compares Hispanisation processes and their results in the Mariana Islands and on Rapa Nui. The second comparative study is by Patrick O. Steinkrüger who reviews a variety of Philippinian languages and their degrees of Hispanisation. The attitudes of native speakers of Chamorro as to Hispanisms is the topic of the study by Rosa Salas Palomo and Thomas Stolz.

The volume is especially interesting for students of language contact. But also scholars with a background in Romance linguistics or Hispanic philology will find the assembled articles very useful, as well as Austronesianists and Amerindianists.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110207231
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019793-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020723-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Book 2007

Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Yaron Matras, Jeanette Sakel

Volume 38 in this series

The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. The uniform structure facilitates a comparison among the chapters and the languages covered. The introduction describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199192
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019628-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019919-2
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Alignment Change in Iranian Languages

Book 2008

Alignment Change in Iranian Languages

A Construction Grammar Approach

Geoffrey L.J. Haig

Volume 37 in this series

The Iranian languages, due to their exceptional time-depth of attestation, constitute one of the very few instances where a shift from accusative alignment to split-ergativity is actually documented. Yet remarkably, within historical syntax, the Iranian case has received only very superficial coverage. This book provides the first in-depth treatment of alignment change in Iranian, from Old Persian (5 C. BC) to the present. The first part of the book examines the claim that ergativity in Middle Iranian emerged from an Old Iranian agented passive construction. This view is rejected in favour of a theory which links the emergence of ergativity to External Possession. Thus the primary mechanisms involved is not reanalysis, but the extension of a pre-existing construction. The notion of Non-Canonical Subjecthood plays a pivotal role, which in the present account is linked to the semantics of what is termed Indirect Participation. In the second part of the book, a comparative look at contemporary West Iranian is undertaken. It can be shown that throughout the subsequent developments in the morphosyntax, distinct components such as agreement, nominal case marking, or the grammar of cliticisation, in fact developed remarkably independently of one another. It was this de-coupling of sub-systems of the morphosyntax that led to the notorious multiplicity of alignment types in Iranian, a fact that also characterises past-tense alignments in the sister branch of Indo-European, Indo-Aryan. Along with data from more than 20 Iranian languages, presented in a manner that renders them accessible to the non-specialist, there is extensive discussion of more general topics such as the adequacy of functional accounts of changes in case systems, discourse pressure and the role of animacy, the notion of drift, and the question of alignment in early Indo-European.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198614
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019586-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019861-4
Subject:: Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Subject:: Language and Literature
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: European Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Verbal and Signed Languages

Book Print Only 2007

Verbal and Signed Languages

Comparing Structures, Constructs and Methodologies

Elena Pizzuto, Paola Pietrandrea, Raffaele Simone

Volume 36 in this series

This book is the first to explore how much ofknowledge based on research on spoken languages needs to be refined in the light of the growing field of sign linguistics. Drawing upon a broad cross-linguistic perspective, the contributors focus on topics of general theoretical interest: linearity and arbitrariness principles, definition of units and levels of analysis, expression of grammatical categories, semantic relations, and cohesion mechanisms. The book is of interest to language typologists, theoretical and descriptive linguists, scholars inthe fields of semiotics, anthropology, gesture studies, and cognitive sciences at large.

ISBN:: 9783110195859
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics
Subject:: Zoosemiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Aspects of Language Contact

Book 2008

Aspects of Language Contact

New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation Processes

Thomas Stolz, Dik Bakker, Rosa Salas Palomo

Volume 35 in this series

This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in the field.

In the first part of the volume, the focus is on methodology and theory. Thomas Stolz defines the study of Romancisation processes as a very promising laboratory for language-contact oriented research and theoretical work based thereon. The reader is informed about the large scale projects on loanword typology in the contribution by Martin Haspelmath and on contact-induced grammatical change conducted by Jeanette Sakel and Yaron Matras. Christel Stolz reviews processes of gender-assignment to loan nouns in German and German-based varieties. The typology of loan verbs is the topic of the contribution by Søren Wichmann and Jan Wohlgemuth. In the articles by Wolfgang Wildgen and Klaus Zimmermann, two radically new approaches to the theory of language contact are put forward: a dynamic model and a constructivism-based theory, respectively.

The second part of the volume is dedicated to more empirically oriented studies which look into language-contact constellations with a Romance donor language and a non-European recipient language. Spanish-Amerindian (Guaraní, Otomí, Quichua) contacts are investigated in the comparative study by Dik Bakker, Jorge Gómez-Rendón and Ewald Hekking. Peter Bakker and Robert A. Papen discuss the influence exerted by French on the indigenous languages ofCanada. The extent of the Portuguese impact on the Amazonian language Kulina is studied by Stefan Dienst. John Holm looks at the validity of the hypothesis that bound morphology normally falls victim to Creolization processes and draws his evidence mainly from Portuguese-based Creoles. For Austronesia, borrowings and calques from French still are an understudied phenomenon. Claire Moyse-Faurie’s contribution to this topic is thus a pioneer’s work. Similarly, Françoise Rose and Odile Renault-Lescure provide us with fresh data on language contact in French Guiana. The final article of this collection by Mauro Tosco demonstrates that the Italianization of languages of the former Italian colonies in East Africa is only weak.

This volume provides the reader with new insights on all levels of language-contact related studies. The volume addresses especially a readership that has a strong interest in language contact in general and its repercussions on the phonology, grammar and lexicon of the recipient languages. Experts of Romance language contact, and specialists of Amerindian languages, Afro-Asiatic languages, Austronesian languages and Pidgins and Creoles will find the volume highly valuable.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110206043
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019584-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-020604-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: European Languages, other
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Quotative Indexes in African Languages

Book 2008

Quotative Indexes in African Languages

A Synchronic and Diachronic Survey

Tom Güldemann

Volume 34 in this series

The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called "direct reported speech"). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. The study is based primarily on this language sample, in particular on the analysis of quotative indexes and related expressions from a text corpus of each sample language, but also includes a wide range of data from the published literature on other African as well as non- African languages. It is the first typological investigation of direct reported discourse of this magnitude in a large group of languages. The book may thus serve as a starting point of similar studies in other geographical areas or even with a global scope, as well as stimulate more detailed investigations of particular languages. The results of the African survey challenge several prevailing cross-linguistic generalizations regarding quotative indexes and reported discourse constructions as a whole, of which two are of particular interest. In the syntactic domain, where reported discourse has mostly been dealt with under so- called sentential complementation, the study supports the minority view that direct reported discourse and also a large portion of indirect reported discourse show hardly any evidence for the claim that the reported clause is a syntactic object complement of some matrix verb. With respect to grammaticalization, the work concludes that speech verbs are, against common belief, not a frequent source of quotatives, complementizers, and other related markers. Far more frequent sources are markers of similarity and manner; generic verbs of equation, inchoativity, and action; and pronominals referring to the quote or the speaker. Another more general conclusion of the study is that especially direct reported discourse can be fruitfully analyzed as part of a larger linguistic domain called "mimesis". This comprises expressions which represent a state of affairs by means of enactment/ performance rather than with the help of "canonical" linguistic signs and includes, besides reported discourse, world-referring bodily gestures, ideophone-like signs, and non-linguistic sound.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211450
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018590-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-021145-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: On Comitatives and Related Categories

Book 2006

On Comitatives and Related Categories

A Typological Study with Special Focus on the Languages of Europe

Thomas Stolz, Cornelia Stroh, Aina Urdze

Volume 33 in this series

This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. Three types of languages are identified according to the morphological treatment of the comitative and its syncretistic association with other concepts. It is shown that the structural behaviour of comitatives is areally biassed and that the languages of Europe tend to diverge from the majority of the world's languages. This has important repercussions for a language-independent definition of the comitative. The supposed conceptual closeness of comitative and instrumental is discussed in some detail and a semantic map of the comitative is put forward. Markedness is the crucial concept for the evaluation of the relation that ties comitatives and instrumentals to each other. In a separate chapter, the diachrony of comitatives is looked into from the perspective of grammaticalisation research. Throughout the book, the argumentation is richly documented by empirical data. The book contains three case-studies of the comitative in Icelandic, Latvian and Maltese - each of which represents one of the three language types identified earlier in the text. For the purpose of comparing the languages of Europe, a chapter is devoted to the analysis of a large parallel literary corpus (covering 64 languages) which reveals that the parameters of genetic affiliation, areal location and typological classification interact in intricate ways when it comes to predicting whether or not two languages of the sample behave similarly as to the use to which they put their comitative morphemes. With a view to determining the degree of similarity between the languages of the European sub-sample, methods of quantitative typology are employed. General linguists with an interest in case, functional typologists, grammaticalisation researchers and experts of markedness issues will value this book as an important contribution to their respective fields of interest.

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197648
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018587-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019764-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Markedness and Language Change

Book 2006

Markedness and Language Change

The Romani Sample

Viktor Elšik, Yaron Matras

Volume 32 in this series

'Markedness' is a central notion in linguistic theory. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of markedness relations across various grammatical categories, in a sample of closely-related speech varieties. It is based on a sample of over 100 dialects of Romani, collected and processed via the Romani Morpho-Syntax (RMS) Database - a comparative grammatical outline in electronic form, constructed by the authors between 2000-2004. Romani dialects provide an exciting sample of language change phenomena: they are oral languages, which have been separated and dispersed from some six centuries, and are strongly shaped by the influence of diverse contact languages.

The book takes a typological approach to markedness, viewing it as a hierarchy among values that is conditioned by conceptual and cognitive universals. But it introduces a functional-pragmatic notion of markedness, as a grammaticalised strategy employed in order to priositise information. In what is referred to as 'dynamic', such prioritisation is influenced by an interplay of factors: the values within a category and the conceptual notions that they represent, the grammatical structure onto which the category values are mapped, and the kind of strategy that is applied in order to prioritise certain value. Consequently, the book contains a thorough survey of some 20 categories (e.g Person, Number, Gender, and so on) and their formal representation in various grammatical structures across the sample. The various accepted criteria for markedness (e.g. Complexity, Differentiation, Erosion, and so on) are examined systematically in relation to the values of each and every category, for each relevant structure. The outcome is a novel picture of how different markedness criteria may cluster for certain categories, giving a concrete reality to the hitherto rather vague notion of markedness. Borrowing and its relation to markedness is also examined, offering new insights into the motivations behind contact-induced change.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197594
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018452-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019759-4
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Standard Negation

Book 2005

Standard Negation

The Negation of Declarative Verbal Main Clauses in a Typological Perspective

Matti Miestamo

Volume 31 in this series

This book is the first cross-linguistic study of clausal negation based on an extensive and systematic language sample. Methodological issues, especially sampling, are discussed at length. Standard negation – the basic structural means languages have for negating declarative verbal main clauses – is typologized from a new perspective, paying attention to structural differences between affirmatives and negatives. In symmetric negation affirmative and negative structures show no differences except for the presence of the negative marker(s), whereas in asymmetric negation there are further structural differences, i.e. asymmetries. A distinction is made between constructional and paradigmatic asymmetry; in the former the addition of the negative marker(s) is accompanied by further structural differences in comparison to the corresponding affirmative, and in the latter the correspondences between the members of (verbal etc.) paradigms used in affirmatives and negatives are not one-to-one. Cross-cutting the constructional-paradigmatic distinction, asymmetric negation can be further divided into subtypes according to the nature of the asymmetry. Standard negation structures found in the 297 sample languages are exemplified and discussed in detail. The frequencies of the different types and some typological correlations are also examined. Functional motivations are proposed for the structural types – symmetric negatives are language-internally analogous to the linguistic structure of the affirmative and asymmetric negatives are language-externally analogous to different asymmetries between affirmation and negation on the functional level. Relevant diachronic issues are also discussed. The book is of interest to language typologists, descriptive linguists and to all linguists interested in negation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197631
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018579-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019763-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Split Intransitivity in Italian

Book 2006

Split Intransitivity in Italian

Delia Bentley

Volume 30 in this series

Split intransitivity has received a great deal of attention in theoretical linguistics since the formulation of the Unaccusative Hypothesis by David Perlmutter (1978). This book provides an in-depth investigation of split intransitivity as it occurs in Italian. The principal proposal is that the manifestations of split intransitivity in Italian, whilst being variously constrained by well-formedness conditions on the encoding of information structure, primarily derive from the tension between accusative (syntactic) and active (semantic) alignment. In contrast to approaches which consider the selection of the perfective operator to be the primary diagnostic of unaccusative or unergative syntax, this study identifies two morphosemantic domains in intransitive constructions on the basis of the analysis of a cluster of related phenomena (including agreement, argument suppression, ne -cliticization, past-participle behaviour, the morphosyntax of experiencer predicates and word order, as well as the selection of the perfective operator). Analysing the degree to which semantic, syntactic and discourse factors interact in determining each manifestation of split intransitivity, this work captures successfully the mismatches in the scope of the various diagnostics.

Drawing upon insights provided by Role and Reference Grammar, and relying on corpus-based evidence and crossdialectal comparison, this study makes new empirical and theoretical contributions to the debate on split intransitivity. The book is accessible to linguists of all theoretical persuasions and will make stimulating reading for researchers and scholars in Italian and Romance linguistics, typology and theoretical linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110896053
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017997-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089605-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages

Book 2004

Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages

Studies in the Dynamics of Binding and Boundness

Isabelle Bril, Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre

Volume 29 in this series

Serial verbs and complex predicates have a long history of research, yet there is comparatively little documentation on Oceanic languages. This volume presents new data for further typological studies.

While previous research on serial verbs in Oceanic languages was mostly devoted to "core" serial constructions (with non-contiguous sV(o)sV(o) nuclei), this volume contributes a more detailed investigation of the "nuclear" type of complex predicates involving contiguous sVV(o) nuclei. Complex predicates of the form VV may correspond to two different syntactic structures, either co-ranking or hierarchized (head-modifier). Though the VV pattern does evidence a tendency towards structural compression, often entailing the fusion of the argument structures of two or more nuclei, yet it cannot be reduced to cases of co-lexicalization, compounding or grammaticalization.

The data also show the "nuclear" type to be compatible with all types of basic word orders (VSO, VOS, SVO, SOV), with no evidence that this results from any word order change. This challenges the claim that "nuclear" serialization correlates with verb-final order, and "core" serialization with verb-medial order.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913286
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018188-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091328-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Generative Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Studies on Reduplication

Book 2005

Studies on Reduplication

Bernhard Hurch, Veronika Mattes

Volume 28 in this series

For several reasons, mostly inherent to the different developments of generative grammar, an increasing number of publications have dealt with reduplication in the past 20 years. Reduplication lends itself perfectly as a test field for theories that opt for a non-segmental organization of phonology and morphology. As it happens frequently, then, the discussion centers around a rather small set of data for which alternative analysis are offered, and which themselves are intended to contribute to the foundation of new theoretical developments.

The present volume (which goes back to a conference on reduplication at the University of Graz, Austria) offers a broader approach to reduplication not only from different theoretical viewpoints, but especially for its phenomenology. Across theories a number of highly qualified authors deal with formal and functional perspectives, with typological properties, with semantics, comparative issues, the role of reduplication in language acquisition, the acquisition of reduplicative systems, sign languages, creoles and pidgins, general grammatical and cognitive principles; the picture is completed by a series of language or language-family specific studies as on Uto-Aztecan, Salish, Tupi-Guarani, Moroccan and Cairene Arabic, various African languages, Chinese, Turkish, Indo-European, languages from India, etc. The overall scope of the conference was to contribute to a new level of discussion of the phenomenon, across theories and across specializations and interests.

Update on Contributor's addresses (PDF)

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911466
ISBN:: 978-3-11-018119-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091146-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Romance Objects

Book 2003

Romance Objects

Transitivity in Romance Languages

Giuliana Fiorentino

Volume 27 in this series

The volume brings together the papers read at the international conference on Romance Objects organized by the Linguistics Department of the Roma Tre University. It is characterized by a striking uniformity of approach, which is functional, and of methodology.

The various case studies regarding the object focus on the syntax/semantics and syntax/pragmatics interfaces. The common denominator of the ten enquiries is the identification of the object category, the DO in particular, in Romance languages; at the same time some of the contributors relate the specific topic to more general questions of linguistic typology. Some of the essays are based on the analysis of data from a corpus and present a diachronic picture of the evolution of the specific topic investigated.

Thus this volume is addressed not only to scholars interested in the Romance languages but also all those who study the object category in a cross-linguistic perspective.

Michela Cennamo: (In)transitivity and object marking: some current issues.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919837
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017960-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091983-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: European Languages, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Typology and Second Language Acquisition

Book 2002

Typology and Second Language Acquisition

Anna Giacalone Ramat

Volume 26 in this series

In recent years research on comparative typology has led to reveal regularities and to formulate new constraints upon variation for a broad range of phenomena. As the amount of typological research increased, a growing interest arose for the implications that findings in the typological field might have on second language acquisition.

Written by experts in the field of typology and/or second language acquisition, this volume addresses theoretical and empirical issues on structural domains such as relative clauses and possessive constructions as well as pragmatic considerations on information organization in learners productions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110891249
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017359-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089124-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Second Language Acquisition
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Verb Classification in Australian Languages

Book 2002

Verb Classification in Australian Languages

William B. McGregor

Volume 25 in this series

This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typology of the systems according to their main formal and semantic characteristics. It also makes some proposals concerning the historical origins and grammaticisation of these systems, and suggestions regarding the grammatical relations involved. In addition, an attempt is made to situate the phenomenon of verb classification within the context of related verbal phenomena such as serial verb constructions, nominal incorporation, and complex predicates.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110870879
ISBN:: 978-3-11-017141-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087087-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Evidentials

Book 2000

Evidentials

Turkic, Iranian and Neighbouring Languages

Lars Johanson, Bo Utas

Volume 24 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110805284
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016158-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080528-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes

Book 2000

Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes

Petra M. Vogel, Bernard Comrie

Volume 23 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110806120
ISBN:: 9783110161021
ISBN:: 9783110806120
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages:

Book 2000

Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Selected South Asian Languages:

A Principled Typology

Barbara C. Lust, Kashi Wali, James W. Gair, K. V. Subbarao

Volume 22 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110818888
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014388-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081888-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: European Languages, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Verbal Periphrases in Romance

Book 1998

Verbal Periphrases in Romance

Aspect, Actionality, and Grammaticalization

Mario Squartini

Volume 21 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110805291
ISBN:: 978-3-11-016160-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080529-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: 8 Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe

Book 2006

8 Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe

Giuliano Bernini, Marcia L. Schwartz

Part of the multi-volume work Eurotyp

Volume 20-8 in this series

The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892222
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015753-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-089222-2
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: 7 Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe

Book 2003

7 Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe

Frans Plank

Part of the multi-volume work Eurotyp

Volume 20-7 in this series

The result of over five years of close collaboration among an international group of leading typologists within the EUROTYP program, this volume is about the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase. Particular attention is being paid to nominal inflectional categories and inflectional systems and to the syntax of determination, modification, and conjunction. Its areal focus, like that of other EUROTYP volumes, is on the languages of Europe; but in order to appreciate what is peculiarly European about their noun phrases, a more comprehensive and genuinely typological view is being taken at the full range of cross-linguistic variation within this structural domain. There has been no shortage lately of contributions to the theory of noun phrase structure; the present volume is, however, unique in the extent to which its theorizing is empirically grounded.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197075
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015748-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019707-5
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: 6 Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe

Book 2000

6 Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe

Östen Dahl

Part of the multi-volume work Eurotyp

Volume 20-6 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197099
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015752-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019709-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: 5 Clitics in the Languages of Europe

Book 1999

5 Clitics in the Languages of Europe

Henk van Riemsdijk

Part of the multi-volume work Eurotyp

Volume 20-5 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110804010
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015751-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080401-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: 4 Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe

Book 1999

4 Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe

Harry van der Hulst

Part of the multi-volume work Eurotyp

Volume 20-4 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197082
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015750-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-019708-2
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: 3 Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe

Book 1998

3 Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe

Johan van der Auwera, Dónall P. O Baoill

Part of the multi-volume work Eurotyp

Volume 20-3 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110802610
ISBN:: 9783110157468
ISBN:: 9783110802610
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: 2 Actance et Valence dans les Langues de l'Europe

Book 1998

2 Actance et Valence dans les Langues de l'Europe

Jack Feuillet

Part of the multi-volume work Eurotyp

Volume 20-2 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110804485
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015749-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080448-5
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: 1 Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe

Book 1998

1 Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe

Anna Siewierska

Part of the multi-volume work Eurotyp

Volume 20-1 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110812206
ISBN:: 9783110151527
ISBN:: 9783110812206
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

Book 1998

Actancy

Gilbert Lazard

Volume 19 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110808100
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015670-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080810-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Adverbial Subordination

Book 1997

Adverbial Subordination

A Typology and History of Adverbial Subordinators Based on European Languages

Bernd Kortmann

Volume 18 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110812428
ISBN:: 978-3-11-015114-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081242-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Typology of Adjectival Predication

Book 1996

The Typology of Adjectival Predication

Harrie Wetzer

Volume 17 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813586
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014989-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-081358-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Negative Sentences in the Languages of Europe

Book 1996

Negative Sentences in the Languages of Europe

A Typological Approach

Giuliano Bernini, Paolo Ramat

Volume 16 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110819748
ISBN:: 9783110819748
ISBN:: 9783110140644
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Transforming the Images

Book 1996

Transforming the Images

Ergativity and Transitivity in Inuktitut (Eskimo)

Elke Nowak

Volume 15 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110808926
ISBN:: 978-3-11-014980-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-080892-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: European Languages, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Grammar of Inalienability

Book 1996

The Grammar of Inalienability

A Typological Perspective on Body Part Terms and the Part-Whole Relation

Hilary Chappell, William McGregor

Volume 14 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110822137
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012804-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-082213-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Functional Theories of Grammar
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Converbs in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Book 1995

Converbs in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Structure and Meaning of Adverbial Verb Forms - Adverbial Participles, Gerunds

Martin Haspelmath, Ekkehard König

Volume 13 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110884463
ISBN:: 9783110884463
ISBN:: 9783110143577
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Functional Theories of Grammar
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Tense, Aspect and Action

Book 1994

Tense, Aspect and Action

Empirical and Theoretical Contributions to Language Typology

Carl Bache, Hans Basbøll, Carl-Erik Lindberg

Volume 12 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110883077
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012713-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088307-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Grammatical Relations

Book 1994

Grammatical Relations

A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on their Syntax and Semantics

Franz Müller-Gotama

Volume 11 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110887334
ISBN:: 978-3-11-013737-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-088733-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Meaning and Grammar

Book 1992

Meaning and Grammar

Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

Michel Kefer, Johan van der Auwera

Volume 10 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110851656
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012805-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085165-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Paradigms

Book 1991

Paradigms

The Economy of Inflection

Frans Plank

Volume 9 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110889109
ISBN:: 9783110127614
ISBN:: 9783110889109
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Toward a Typology of European Languages

Book 1990

Toward a Typology of European Languages

Johannes Bechert, Giuliano Bernini, Claude Buridant

Volume 8 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863178
ISBN:: 9783110121087
ISBN:: 9783110863178
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Pragmatics of Word Order

Book 1990

The Pragmatics of Word Order

Typological Dimensions of Verb Initial Languages

Doris L. Payne

Volume 7 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110847284
ISBN:: 978-3-11-012207-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084728-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Analyticity and Syntheticity

Book 1990

Analyticity and Syntheticity

A Diachronic Perspective with Special Reference to Romance Languages

Armin Schwegler

Volume 6 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110872927
ISBN:: 978-3-11-011245-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-087292-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: European Languages, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Typology of Subordination in Georgian and Abkhaz

Book 1987

The Typology of Subordination in Georgian and Abkhaz

Brian G. Hewitt

Volume 5 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110846768
ISBN:: 978-3-11-010709-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-084676-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Transitivity and Discourse Continuity in Chamorro Narratives

Book 1987

Transitivity and Discourse Continuity in Chamorro Narratives

Ann M. Cooreman

Volume 4 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110851014
ISBN:: 978-3-11-011307-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085101-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns

Book 1987

The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns

From Latin to Old Romance

Dieter Wanner

Volume 3 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110893069
ISBN:: 9783110108477
ISBN:: 9783110893069
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: European Languages, other
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Romance Languages, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: The Typology of Reflexives

Book 1987

The Typology of Reflexives

Emma Geniusiené

Volume 2 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859119
ISBN:: 978-3-11-010677-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085911-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

book: Linguistic Typology

Book 1987

Linguistic Typology

Paolo Ramat, A. P. Baldry

Volume 1 in this series

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110859126
ISBN:: 978-3-11-010678-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-085912-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter Mouton

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