Form and function in language research papers in honour of Christian Lehmann / edited by Johannes Helmbrecht ... [et al.].
| Other author | Helmbrecht, Johannes. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, |
| Description | xii, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 210 Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs 210. ^A512512 |
| Contents | Introduction / Johannes Helmbrecht ... [et al.] -- 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009027067 |
| ISBN | 9783110216127 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 3110216124 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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