Lohndal In Search of Universal Grammar

From Old Norse to Zoque
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-272-7243-0
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 202, 367 Seiten, + index

Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

This volume in honor of Jan Terje Faarlund covers the areas in which he has contributed to linguistic theorizing, ranging from in-depth studies of Norwegian and Scandinavian grammar both synchronically and diachronically, to work on the Indian language Chiapas Zoque. The book is organized thematically with two chapters on each topic: The grammar of the Scandinavian languages (Tor A. Åfarli and Christer Platzack); language policies and sociolinguistics (Unn Røyneland and Peter Trudgill); French (Hans Petter Helland and Christine Meklenborg Salvesen); language change (Werner Abraham and Elly van Gelderen); lesser-studied languages (Alice Harris and Jerry Sadock); language acquisition (David Lightfoot and Marit Westergaard); and language evolution (Erika Hagelberg and Salikoko Mufwene). This book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from students to scholars working on any of the areas covered.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lohndal, Terje

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Terje Lohndal
Scandinavian
On the syntax of the accusative/dative alternation in spatial PPs in Norwegian dative dialects
Tor A. Åfarlí
Spurious topic drop in Swedish
Christer Platzack
Germanic sociolinguistics
“The voice from below”: Norwegian language reforms in the 21st century
Unn Røyneland
Gender maintenance and loss in Totenmålet, English, and other major Germanic varieties
Peter Trudgill
French
Non-finite adjuncts in French
Hans Petter Helland
Topics and the left periphery: A comparison of Old French and Modern Germanic
Christine Meklenborg Salvesen
Language change
The developmental logic of the analytic past in German and Polish: An issue of universalism or areal contact?
Werner Abraham
The diachrony of pronouns and demonstratives
Elly van Gelderen
Lesser-studied languages
Origins of metathesis in Batsbi
Alice C. Harris
Indefinitely definite expressions
Jerrold M. Sadock
Language acquisition
Doing diachrony
David Lightfoot
The acquisition of linguistic variation: Parameters vs. micro-cues
Marit Westergaard
Language evolution
The evolution of language
Erika Hagelberg
Language as technology: Some questions that evolutionary linguistics should address
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Index