This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cai, jiu, dou and ye are, in a specific use type, shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm. This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure, focus and contrastive topics, and quantification. The outstanding characteristic of this book, viz. its effortless...
This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cai, jiu, dou and ye are, in...
Diese Studie, hervorgegangen aus der Habilitationsschrift des Autors, entwickelt die erste sowohl einheitliche als auch formal explizite Theorie der freien Dative des Deutschen. Traditionelle Dativtypen, die abgedeckt werden, umfassen den possessiven Dativ, den dativus (in)commodi sowie den dativus iudicantis. Die zentrale Hypothese des Buches lautet: Jeder freie Dativ bindet den Possessor eines Koarguments desselben finiten Teilsatzes. Damit ist der freie Dativ der Exponent einer Reflexivierungsdiathese, die viel mit kanonischer Reflexivitat gemeinsam hat. Allerdings ist...
Diese Studie, hervorgegangen aus der Habilitationsschrift des Autors, entwickelt die erste sowohl einheitliche als auch formal explizite Theorie de...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation, TbiLLC 2013, held in Gudauri, Georgia, in September 2013. The conference series is centered around the interaction between logic, language and computation. The contributions represent these three fields and the symposia aim to foster interaction between them.
The book consists of 16 papers that were carefully reviewed and selected from26 submissions. Each paper has passed through a rigorous peer-review process before being accepted for publication. The volume...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation, TbiLLC 2013, held in...
