Nikolaus P. Himmelmann – författare

Depictive secondary predicates, such as ''raw'' in ''George ate the fish raw'', are central to current issues in syntactic and semantic theory - in particular predication theory, phrase structure theories, issues of control and grammatical relations, and verbal aspect. This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication from a cross-linguistic perspective. It describes all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties. It considers similarities and differences between secondary predicates and other types of adjuncts, including adverbials of manner, comparison, quantity, and location.The authors are leading scholars with a first-hand knowledge of the languages they discuss. Their approach is theory-neutral and pragmatic: they draw on insights and research traditions ranging from the minimalist program to semantic maps methodology. The book will interest scholars working on the semantics or syntax of secondary predicates, adverbials, and the role of agreement and other morphological marking. It has been designed for use in advanced syntax and typology classes.

Depictive secondary predicates, such as 'raw' in 'George ate the fish raw', are central to current issues in syntactic and semantic theory - in particular predication theory, phrase structure theories, issues of control and grammatical relations, and verbal aspect. This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication from a cross-linguistic perspective. It describes all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties. It considers similarities and differences between secondary predicates and other types of adjuncts, including adverbials of manner, comparison, quantity, and location.The authors are leading scholars with a first-hand knowledge of the languages they discuss. Their approach is theory-neutral and pragmatic: they draw on insights and research traditions ranging from the minimalist program to semantic maps methodology. The book will interest scholars working on the semantics or syntax of secondary predicates, adverbials, and the role of agreement and other morphological marking. It has been designed for use in advanced syntax and typology classes.

Depictive secondary predicates such as raw in George ate the fish raw are important for current issues in syntactic and semantic theory, in particular predication theory, phrase structure theories, issues of control and grammatical relations, and verbal aspect. This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication from a crosslinguistic perspective. It maps out all the relevant phenomena and brings together critical surveys and new contributions on their morphosyntactic and semantic properties. In particular it considers similarities and differences between secondary predicates and other types of adjuncts, including adverbials of manner, comparison, quantity, and location. The authors are leading scholars with a first-hand knowledge of the languages they discuss. Their approach is theory-neutral and pragmatic: they draw on insights and research traditions ranging from the minimalist program to semantic maps methodology. The book will interest scholars working on the semantics or syntax of secondary predicates, adverbials, and the role of agreement and other morphological marking. It has also beeen designed for use in advanced syntax and typology classes.

The status of grammaticalization has been the subject of many controversial discussions. The contributions to What makes Grammaticalization? approach the prevalent phenomenon from the angle of language structure and focus on the interrelation between the levels of phonology, pragmatics (inference), discourse and the lexicon and some of them try to integrate the areal perspective. A wealth of data from Slavonic languages as well as from languages of other genetic and areal affiliation is discussed. The book is of interest to linguists specializing in grammaticalization, lexicalization and morphological typology, to language typologists as well as to functional, historical and cognitive linguists.

Language documentation is a rapidly emerging new field in linguistics which is concerned with the methods, tools and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language. This volume presents in-depth introductions to major aspects of language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. It combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specific suggestions for the most common problems encountered in language documentation.Key features textbook introduction to Language Documentation considers all common problems

Language documentation is a rapidly emerging new field in linguistics which is concerned with the methods, tools and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language. This volume presents in-depth introductions to major aspects of language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. It combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specific suggestions for the most common problems encountered in language documentation. Key features textbook introduction to Language Documentation considers all common problems

The status of grammaticalization has been the subject of many controversial discussions. The contributions to What makes Grammaticalization? approach the prevalent phenomenon from the angle of language structure and focus on the interrelation between the levels of phonology, pragmatics (inference), discourse and the lexicon and some of them try to integrate the areal perspective. A wealth of data from Slavonic languages as well as from languages of other genetic and areal affiliation is discussed. The book is of interest to linguists specializing in grammaticalization, lexicalization and morphological typology, to language typologists as well as to functional, historical and cognitive linguists.

Language documentation is a rapidly emerging new field in linguistics which is concerned with the methods, tools and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language. This volume presents in-depth introductions to major aspects of language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. It combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specific suggestions for the most common problems encountered in language documentation.

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textbook introduction to Language Documentation considers all common problems

Daß sich Definitartikel aus Demonstrativa herleiten, ist wohlbekannt. Aber wie man sich diesen Prozeß genau vorzustellen hat, ist weitgehend unklar. Dieses Buch entwickelt zu diesem Thema eine Reihe von Hypothesen, die auf der empirischen Basis eines breiten Samples von über 80 Sprachen diskutiert werden. Diskussionsschwerpunkte sind u.a. Deutsch (Umgangsdeutsch und Dialekte), Englisch, Tagalog und Indonesisch; aber auch für die vieldiskutierte Artikelentwicklung in der Romania werden neue Perspektiven eröffnet. Zentral ist die Hypothese, daß in diesem Prozeß nicht nur ein grammatisches Element (ein Artikel), sondern auch eine grammatische Konstruktion (eine NP) entsteht. Es wird gezeigt, daß syntaktische Struktur (syntaktische Kategorien, Konstituentenstruktur) ebenso ein Produkt von Grammatikalisierungsprozessen ist wie ein grammatisches Element. Damit werden hier erstmals detaillierte Vorschläge für die syntaktische Seite von Grammatikalisierungsprozessen, die in der grammatikalisierungstheoretischen Literatur bisher kaum beachtet wurde, unterbreitet.

Neben dem Definitartikel wird eine große Anzahl weiterer Artikelphänomene behandelt (z.B. der Gelenkartikel) und eine neue Typologie für Artikel vorgeschlagen. Auch der Gebrauch von Demonstrativa ist Gegenstand einer eingehenden Untersuchung, da es den Ausgangspunkt der Entwicklung von Artikeln so genau wie möglich zu identifizieren gilt. Im Gegensatz zur weitverbreiteten Annahme, Artikel entwickelten sich aus dem anaphorischen Gebrauch von Demonstrativa, wird dafür argumentiert, daß ein bisher nur selten bemerkter, aber universal attestierter Gebrauch von Demonstrativa, der anamnestische Gebrauch, ein weitaus plausiblerer Ausgangspunkt ist.