Helmbrecht / Nishina / Shin Form and Function in Language Research

Papers in Honour of Christian Lehmann
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-021613-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 210, 362 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN

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 manifestation in natural languages. Empirical studies in these fields of linguistics have contributed to sharpen linguistic theory in several respects. This volume is a collection of 19 contributions from outstanding scholars in the field of functional-typological linguistics that address fundamental issues in the study of language, such as the nature of linguistic categories, the constitution of functional domains, and the form of cross-linguistic continua. Empirical data from individual languages and from typological samples are investigated in order to achieve generalizations about the properties of human grammar(s). Several grammatical phenomena are dealt with including tonal systems, person distinctions, modalities, reciprocity, complex predicates, grammatical relations, word order, clause linkage, and information structure. The structure of the book illustrates the fundamental importance of the analytical distinction between the onomasiological and the semasiological approach to language and language diversity. Both perspectives are integrated in most papers with a dominant focus on either the former or the latter perspective.

Zielgruppe

Linguists with a Functional Approach to Language, or interested in Theoretical and Empirical Issues related to Language Description and Comparison

Autoren/Hrsg.

Helmbrecht, Johannes

Nishina, Yoko

Shin, Yong-Min

Skopeteas, Stavros

Verhoeven, Elisabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;7
3;Glosses;11
4;Introduction;13
5;The continuum of pragmaticity: a sketch;23
6;Weighing semantic distinctions in person forms;37
7;Spatial reciprocity: between grammar and lexis;69
8;A chapter in marginal possession: on being six(ty) in Europe (and beyond);81
9;Thoughts on (im)perfective imperatives;105
10;Animacy and argument hierarchy in conflict: constraints on object-topicalization in Korean;119
11;Zero and nothing in Jarawara;137
12;Clause linkage in a language without coordination: the adjoined clause in Iatmul;151
13;Once more on linguistic categories;163
14;Questions surrounding the basic notions of the word, lexie, morpheme, and lexeme;169
15;Linguistic typology and language theory: the various faces of syntax;179
16;Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: alignment, extraction, and control;197
17;Areal typology of tone-consonant interaction and implosives in Kwa, Kru, and Southern-Mande;229
18;The internal structure of adpositional phrases;243
19;On the form of complex predicates: toward demystifying serial verbs;267
20;Conjunctive coordination in Amharic: some typological approaches;295
21;Linguistic type and complexity: some remarks;313
22;Constituent questions and argument-focus constructions: some data from the North-Caucasian languages;325
23;“A lot of grammar with a good portion of lexicon”: towards a typology of partitive and pseudopartitive nominal constructions;341
24;Backmatter;359

Über Autor(innen)

Johannes Helmbrecht, University of Regensburg, Germany; Yoko Nishina, University of Erfurt, Germany; Yong-Min Shin, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea; Stavros Skopeteas, University of Potsdam, Germany; Elisabeth Verhoeven, University of Bremen, Germany.