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Form and function in language research : papers in honour of Christian Lehmann /
Language description enriches linguistic theory and linguistic theory sharpens language description. Based on evidence from the world's languages, functional-typological linguistics has established a number of thorough generalizations about the nature of linguistic categorizations and their man...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
210. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Johannes Helmbrecht [and others]
- A. Onomasiological perspective: from function to form
- A.1. Functional typologies. The continuum of pragmaticity: a sketch / Hansjakob Seiler
- Weighing semantic distinctions in person forms / Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska
- Spatial reciprocity: between grammar and lexis / Ekkehard König and Claire Moyse-Faurie
- A chapter in marginal possession: on being six(ty) in Europe (and beyond) / Christel Stolz and Thomas Stolz
- A.2. Constraints on the encoding of concepts. Thoughts on (im)perfective imperatives / Johan van der Auwera, Andrej Malchukov, and Ewa Schalley
- Animacy and argument hierarchy in conflict: constraints on object-topicalization in Korean / Yong-Min Shin and Elisabeth Verhoeven
- A.3. Limits of the exponence of functions: zero. Zero and nothing in Jarawara / R.M.W. Dixon
- Clause linkage in a language without coordination: the adjoined clause in Iatmul / Gerd Jendraschek
- B. Semasiological perspective: from form to function
- B.1. Establishing categories and relations. Once more on linguistic categories / Paolo Ramat
- Questions surrounding the basic notions of the word, lexie, morpheme, and lexeme / Christian Touratier
- Linguistic typology and language theory: the various faces of syntax / Lunella Mereu
- Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: alignment, extraction, and control / Jürgen Bohnemeyer
- B.2. Formal typologies. Areal typology of tone-consonant interactions and implosives in Kwa, Kru, and Southern-Mande / Firmin Ahoua
- The internal structure of adpositional phrases / Silvia Luraghi
- On the form of complex predicates: toward demystifying serial verbs / Masayoshi Shibatani
- Conjunctive coordination in Amharic: some typological approaches / Dieter Metzing and Saba Amsalu Teserra
- Linguistic type and complexity: some remarks / Pierluigi Cuzzolin
- B.3. Discovering function in the identity of form. Constituent questions and argument-focus constructions: some data from the North-Caucasian languages / Nina Sumbatova
- "A lot of grammar with a good portion of lexicon": towards a typology of partitive and pseudo-partitive nominal constructions / Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm.