Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Slavic Languages (Other)

Die erlebte Rede im Deutschen und Polnischen wird im vorliegenden Buch nicht nur als Rede- oder Gedankenwiedergabe aufgefat, sondern wesentlich als ein textuelles Phanomen, das eines spezifischen narrativen Kontextes bedarf, in welchem der wiedergebende Sprecher ein Erzahler ist. Hauptgegenstand der Untersuchung ist die Raum- und Zeitreferenz in erlebter Rede. Die in diesem Zusammenhang betrachteten sprachlichen Ausdrucksmittel sind Temporaladverbiale, positionale und dimensionale Lokaladverbiale, die Tempora beider Sprachen und der Aspekt im Polnischen. Um die Kookkurrenzen...

The monograph explains how the lack of a 'nominal article' category in some Slavic languages influences nominal reference and textual coherence. The book demonstrates that the missing category cannot be represented by the absence of the functional category D⁰, but that a phonologically empty category with the meaning of the semantic default determiner must be assumed. Otherwise, syntactically and semantically well-formed sentences could not be generated. The semantic default determiner is only specified contextually when the DP with a fixed function in a sentence combines the...

In dieser Arbeit wird die Frage aufgeworfen, wieweit das syntaktische Verhalten der abgeleiteten Worter durch die thematische Struktur der ihnen zu Grunde liegenden Basen beeinflut wird. Um eine Antwort auf diese Frage zu finden, werden deutsche -er-Nomina und vergleichbare -o/-o-Derivate des Ungarischen untersucht. Fur die Untersuchung werden u.a. eine semantisch fundierte Verbklassifikation sowie eine konzeptuelle Hypothese vorausgesetzt. Nach dieser besteht die Funktion der Suffixe (oder Affixe) darin, da sie die konzeptuelle Struktur der Basis modifizieren, wobei der...

Given that we lack sensory-motor experience for abstract concepts, how do we find out what they mean? How far can we get by tracking frequency distributions in input? The volume tackles the question of what language has to offer the language learner in his/her quest for meaning, and explicitly addresses how semantic knowledge may be distributed along the continuum from "grammar" to "lexicon." Focus is on the synonymy of constructions and lexemes, a meaning relation that has been largely ignored in Western linguistics.

Frequency in all its guises plays a major part in this book....

The book documents the spoken Polish of oldest Bukovina inhabitants - a geographical and historical region on the border of Ukraine and Romania. The spoken Polish in Bukovina is a dying heritage that holds a unique value for the Polish culture. It constitutes a conglomeration of local varieties of Polish, whose speakers arrived in waves from remote regions to an area that never belonged to the Polish state. These dialects then grew in long-term isolation from other versions of the Polish language while being surrounded by languages from three other groups: Germanic, Slavic, and Romance....

Readers of poetry make aesthetic judgements about verse. It is quite common to hear intuitive statements about poets' rhythms. It is said, for example, that Joseph Brodsky, the Russian poet and 1987 Nobel Prize laureate, "sounds English" when he writes in Russian.

Yet, it is far from clear what this statement means from a linguistic point of view. What is English about Brodsky's Russian poetry? And in what way are his "English" rhythms different from the verse of his Russian predecessors?

The book provides an analysis of Brodsky's experiment bringing evidence from an...