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Yiddish Language Structures presents ten new studies on structural aspects of Yiddish in the light of modern linguistic theories which are of interest to linguists and philologists. The contributions are examples of data-based research. They address several levels of the language system including morphology, syntax and lexicology, and put special emphasis on mechanisms of internal and contact-induced language change spanning different epochs and societal and textual strata.

Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology presents a theory of the architecture of the human linguistic system that differs from all current theories on four key points. First, the theory rests on a modular separation of word syntax from phrasal syntax, where word syntax corresponds roughly to what has been called derivational morphology. Second, morphosyntax (corresponding to what is traditionally called "inflectional morphology") is the immediate spellout of the syntactic merge operation, and so there is no separate morphosyntactic component. There is no LF (logical form) derived;...

The new book series of Institut fur Deutsche Sprache (Institute of German Language, IDS) offers a platform for comparative research on chosen aspects of German linguistics, especially with regard to their typological relevance. It includes both monographs and edited volumes, in English and in German, on topics such as grammar (phonology, graphemics, morphology, syntax, semantics), lexis, pragmatics, second-language acquisition, multilingualism and language contact. All publications are innovative contributions to the description of the linguistic phenomena in question, but also to the...

Das ungeklarte Verhaltnis zwischen Wortbildung und Lexikon ist Gegenstand einer umfassenden und lang andauernden Diskussion in der morphologischen bzw. grammatiktheoretischen Literatur. Gleiches gilt auch fur die Frage nach der Abgrenzung zwischen Morphologie und Syntax. Eine zentrale Rolle innerhalb dieser Debatten spielen nominale Komposita. Der Band untersucht solche Komposita und korrespondierende phrasale bzw. phraseologische Einheiten und diskutiert sie in Hinblick auf das Verhaltnis von Wortbildung, Syntax und Lexikon. Konkreter Untersuchungsgegenstand sind Adjektiv-Nomen-Komposita...

This volume explores the syntactic, semantic and morphological properties of -ble adjectives from a comparative perspective within Distributed Morphology. The proposal implicates a number of central issues in the syntax-semantics-morphology interface, e.g. cross-category derivations, verb classification, locus of linguistic variation, or status of impossible words. The volume also contributes novel empirical data, which are analyzed in the light of a previously unnoticed correlation between Spanish and English.

Creole languages have in recent years become a valuable source of data for current theories of syntax and theories of child/adult language acquisition. However, grammars of these languages, particularly those couched within theoretical frameworks of one kind of another, are few and far between.

This book contributes directly to creole linguistics by providing a detailed study of different aspects of the syntax of Mauritian creole within the theoretical framework of Principles and Parameters (Chomsky, 1981) and Minimalism (1995). It gives the reader a detailed account of the...

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...

Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of...

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as...

Anhand der Analyse von Alltagskonversationen wird gezeigt, da und wie die bisher weitgehend antagonistischen Forschungsstrange Grammatiktheorie und Konversationsanalyse sprachwissenschaftlich fruchtbar miteinandner verbunden werden konnen. Ausgangsannahme ist, da eine linguistisch orientierte Konversationstheorie nicht nur Performanzphanomene untersucht, sondern, wie die Grammatik, Aspekte der sprachlichen Kompetenz. Damit erhebt sich die Frage nach dem Grenzverlauf zwischen der konversationsanalytischen und der grammatischen Kompetenzforschung. Es mu vor allem geklart werden, a) ob es...

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Grober in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages.

The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and...

Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist zum einen eine Diskussion ausgewahlter Phanomene der Wortbildung; zum anderen geht die Arbeit der grundsatzlichen Frage nach dem Verhaltnis von Morphologie und Syntax bzw. dem 'Ort' der Wortbildung in der Grammatik nach. Es wird ein Modell entwickelt, in dem die grammatischen Regularitaten der Wortbildung nicht auf der Grundlage von morphologie-spezifischen Regeln, sondern unter Rekurs auf unabhangig begrundete syntaktische Restriktionen und Prinzipien erklart werden. Konstitutiv fur dieses syntaktische Modell der Wortbildung sind die folgenden Annahmen:...

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Grober in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages.

The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and...

Die Untersuchung bezieht zu zwei zentralen Streitpunkten der Skriptaforschung Stellung: zur Frage nach dem Verhaltnis zwischen der geschrieben uberlieferten und der lokal gesprochenen Sprache und zum methodologischen Zugang. Der Verfasser zieht aus der Betrachtung der skriptologischen Methodengeschichte den Schlu, da die Kombinierung quantitativer und qualitativer Ansatze moglich und sinnvoll ist. Er schlagt deshalb eine untersuchungsperspektivische Erweiterung in Anlehnung an die Varietatenlinguistik vor. Der eigens entwickelte "historisch-varietatenlinguistische" Ansatz wird am Beispiel...

Contrary to earlier approaches, this study suggests that Modern Greek (MG) is a language that exhibits reduplication, in the form of Total Reduplication (TR). The analysis addresses the morphosyntactic, phonological, semantic and pragmatic aspects of the types of TR in MG, and the constraints and/or preferences of speakers concerning their use. The typology of TR focuses on four cross-linguistically common meanings/functions, identified as the intensive, the contrastive, the distributive and the iterative. Part of the analysis of these functional types is based on data that come from two...

This comprehensive treatment of several phenomena in Distributed Morphology explores a number of topics of high relevance to current linguistic theory. It examines the structure of the syntactic and postsyntactic components of word formation, and the role of hierarchical, featural, and linear restrictions within the auxiliary systems of several varieties of Basque.

The postsyntactic component is modeled as a highly articulated system that accounts for what is shared and what exhibits variation across Basque dialects. The emphasis is on a principled ordering of postsyntactic...