Nominal classification in Asia and Oceania: functional and diachronic perspectives Linguists have long been interested in systems of nominal classification due to their diverse functions as well as cognitive and cultural correlates. Among others, ongoing research has focused on semantic, … Weiterlesen
The Diachrony of Ditransitives in Late Modern Swedish This book presents the first major study of ditransitives in Swedish. Using a combination of well-established and innovative corpus-based methods, the book reveals considerable changes in the constructional behaviour of ditransitive verbs … Weiterlesen
In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: African languages from a Role and Reference Grammar perspective: Studies on the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface Jens Fleischhauer & Claudius Patrick Kihara (Hrsg,)https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110795295 The volume is a collection of papers which … Weiterlesen
Form and Meaning: Studies of Grammatical Variation and Communicative Choice in Spanish This book presents a state-of-the-art study of variation that considers meaning—in all its possible facets—as the key to scientific explanation. It brings together a group of international scholars … Weiterlesen
In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Free variation in grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches Kristin Kopf & Thilo Weber (Hrsg.)https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.234 Recent years have seen a growing interest in grammatical variation, a core explanandum of grammatical … Weiterlesen
Handbuch synonymer grammatischer Mittel im Deutschen Das Handbuch präsentiert anhand zahlreicher Beispiele grammatische Mittel und Strukturen, die in der deutschen Standardsprache alternierend verwendet werden können, ohne dass sich dadurch die Äußerung inhaltlich wesentlich ändert. Hinweise für Deutschlernende verweisen auf ausgewählte … Weiterlesen
Crosslinguistic Facets of the Subjunctive No other grammatical phenomenon causes as many problems in teaching and learning as the subjunctive. Most grammars devote as many pages to the presentation of the rules as to the exceptions. This becomes even more … Weiterlesen
In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Encyclopaedia of German diatheses Michael Cysouwhttps://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/374https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7602514 Diathesis („valency alternation“) is a sentence structure that reshapes the roles of a verb. The prototypical example of such a diathesis is the … Weiterlesen
A systemic functional grammar of Chinese nominal groups: a text-based approach This book describes the grammar of Chinese nominal groups for the purpose of text analysis, drawing upon Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model. Exploring the metafunctional grammatical resources in … Weiterlesen
Velar fronting in German dialects: study in synchronic and diachronic phonology Tracy Alan Hallhttps://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/331https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7185567 Velar Fronting (VF) is the name for any synchronic or diachronic phonological process shifting the velar place of articulation to the palatal region of the vocal … Weiterlesen
Form, meaning and aspect in the German impersonal passive Actional passives are conventionally considered to be the result of a voice analysis conversion process. They are said to derive from semantically identical underlying actives, even though most passives do not … Weiterlesen
Arabic dislocation Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977, inter alia), the phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research. This, however, has not been the case for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and hence … Weiterlesen
Er hilft „in Sachen französische Verben“ weiter: Le Conjugueur va vous aider à conjuguer un verbe. Entrez votre verbe ci-dessus et vous verrez s’afficher la conjugaison. Vous pouvez également entrer un verbe déjà conjugué pour en retrouver l’infinitif. Le Conjugueur contient également … Weiterlesen
IMT Vault ist eine Datenbank mit derzeit rund 39.000 Sprachbeispielen, die aus den Grammatiken und Büchern der Language Science Press extrahiert wurden. Die Interlinearglossierten Beispiele – IMT steht für „Interlinear Morpheme Translation“ – können durchsucht und nach verschiedenen Kriterien gefiltert … Weiterlesen
Modular design of grammar: linguistics on the edge Modular design of grammar: Linguistics on the edge presents the cutting edge of research on linguistic modules and interfaces in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). LFG has a highly modular design that models the … Weiterlesen