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Thetics and Categoricals
Av Fujinawa Yasuhiro Fujinawa, Leiss Elisabeth Leiss m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
1393 kr
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Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of German grammar. Thetics were introduced in logic as impersonal and broad focus constructions. They left profound and extensive traces in the logic of the late 19th century. For the class of thetic propositions, the criterion of textual …
Certainty-uncertainty - and the Attitudinal Space in Between
Av Leiss Elisabeth Leiss, Abraham Werner Abraham m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
1393 kr
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The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the …
Modes of Modality
Modality, typology, and universal grammar
Av Abraham Werner Abraham, Leiss Elisabeth Leiss
E-bok, 2014
1477 kr
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The volume aims at a universal definition of modality or “illocutionary/speaker’s perspective force” that is strong enough to capture the entire range of different subtypes and varieties of modalities in different languages. The central idea is that modality is all-pervasive in language. This …
Minimal Ideas
Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework
Av Zwart C. Jan-Wouter Zwart, Thrainsson Hoskuldur Thrainsson m. fl.
E-bok, 1996
1830 kr
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The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomsky’s MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper “A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory”. The articles seek to develop further some key idea in the Minimalist Program, sometimes in ways …
Topic, Focus and Configurationality
Papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984
Av Meij Sjaak de Meij, Abraham Werner Abraham
E-bok, 1986
1830 kr
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Some fundamental questions regarding sentence structure in linguistics concern whether all languages, at some level of abstraction, have the same structure, and what are the basic categories with which to describe sentence structure. The contributors of this volume are specialized in two quite …
On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermania
Papers from the 3rd Groningen Grammar Talks (3e Groninger Grammatikgespräche), Groningen, January 1981
E-bok, 1983
1430 kr
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It has often been noted that Dutch (and Frisian) reflects a particular stage of development between German and English. Phonologically, syntactically and morphologically, Dutch and German are closely related languages. Yet, there remain sufficient morphosyntactic differences in terms of language …
Studien zur Modernen Deutschen Lexikographie
Auswahl aus den Lexikographischen Arbeiten. Erweitert um drei Beiträge von Helene Malige-Klappenbach
Av Klappenbach Ruth Klappenbach, Abraham Werner Abraham
E-bok, 1980
1695 kr
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The book sketches the history and technical apparatus of dictionary writing, in detail Ruth Klappenbach’s Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache . Berlin: Akademieverlag 1956, a loner at its time and setting the pattern for the many other German dictionaries to come. The book’s main chapters …
Discourse Particles
Descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German
E-bok, 1991
1628 kr
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This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language. In the narrower meaning of the linguistic term particles can be distinguished between logical, or scalar particles and modal, or pragmatic particles. The …
Discourse, Grammar and Typology
Papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar
Av Thompson Sandra A. Thompson, Givon T. Givon m. fl.
E-bok, 1995
1642 kr
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This volume combines papers selected for their affinity with work on discourse analysis and language typology. The methodological platform is the authors'' conviction that all linguistic work needs to be empirical in the sense that (1) generalizations are to be made on the basis of spoken texts in …
Valence, Semantic Case, and Grammatical Relations
Workshop studies prepared for the 12th International Congress of Linguists, Vienna, August 29th to September 3rd, 1977
E-bok, 1978
1724 kr
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The papers in this volume have been grouped in three thematic parts: Valence which plays a key concept in the syntactic classification of verbs and adjectives, provides a necessary link for decoding and encoding grammatical relations, and is an important requisite for the evaluation of formal …
Modality-Aspect Interfaces
Implications and typological solutions
Av Leiss Elisabeth Leiss, Abraham Werner Abraham
E-bok, 2008
1544 kr
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The main topics pursued in this volume are based on empirical insights derived from Germanic: logical and typological dispositions about aspect-modality links. These are probed in a variety of non-related languages. The logically establishable links are the following: Modal verbs are aspect …
Nominal Determination
Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence
Av Abraham Werner Abraham, Leiss Elisabeth Leiss m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
1659 kr
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The following theoretical-empirical points on the DP are discussed: Article and its referential-anaphoric properties by Abraham (Determiners in Centering Theory); Bartra (On bare NPs in Old Spanish and Catalan); identification of all functional nominal categories by Stvan (Bare singular count …
Passivization and Typology
Form and function
Av Leisio Larisa Leisio, Abraham Werner Abraham
E-bok, 2006
2048 kr
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Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other …
Datives and Other Cases
Between argument structure and event structure
Av Abraham Werner Abraham, Meinunger Andre Meinunger m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
1830 kr
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This volume provides a state-of-the-art account of research into datives and other morphological cases. The contributors, among them leading scholars in the field, present fresh insights into traditional issues such as the dichotomy between lexical and structural case, and open up fascinating new …
Composition of Meaning
From lexeme to discourse
Av Abraham Werner Abraham, Meulen Alice G.B. ter Meulen
E-bok, 2004
1393 kr
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In the modular design of generative theory the syntax–semantics interface has accounted all along for meanings at the level of Logical Form. The syntax–pragmatics interface, on the other hand, is the result of what one may call the ‘pragmatic turn’ in the linguistic theory, where content is …
Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax
Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (Groningen, May 26–27, 2000)
Av Abraham Werner Abraham, Zwart C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
E-bok, 2002
1897 kr
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This volume presents a collection of articles reporting on new research carried out within the theoretical framework of generative grammar on the comparative syntax of the Germanic languages. Divided in four main sections, the book focuses on issues of subordination and complementation (with …
Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology
Av Zwart C. Jan-Wouter Zwart, Abraham Werner Abraham
E-bok, 2002
1830 kr
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This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles, …
Präteritumschwund und Diskursgrammatik
Präteritumschwund in gesamteuropäischen Bezügen: areale Ausbreitung, heterogene Entstehung, Parsing sowie diskursgrammatische Grundlagen und Zusammenhänge
Av Conradie C. Jac Conradie, Abraham Werner Abraham
E-bok, 2001
903 kr
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This work demonstrates that what is commonly called ‘preterite decay in Upper German’ (PS; cf. German Präteritumschwund ) is in fact a phenomenon common to a great number of European languages, all of which are in areal con-tact. However, the conclusion that this is a phenomenon arising under areal …
Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity
Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov
Av Kulikov Leonid Kulikov, Abraham Werner Abraham
E-bok, 1999
1695 kr
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This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir …
