Form and function in language research
Subtitle: papers in honour of Christian Lehmann
By: edited by Johannes Helmbrecht ... [et al.].
Contributors: Helmbrecht, Johannes.
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- 210; Trends in linguistics -- 210.
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9783110216127
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax; Typology (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Johannes Helmbrecht ... [et al.]; title: A. Onomasiological perspective: from function to form; title: A.1. Functional typologies. The continuum of pragmaticity: a sketch / Hansjakob Seiler; title: Weighing semantic distinctions in person forms / Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska; title: Spatial reciprocity: between grammar and lexis / Ekkehard König and Claire Moyse-Faurie; title: A chapter in marginal possession: on being six(ty) in Europe (and beyond) / Christel Stolz and Thomas Stolz; title: A.2. Constraints on the encoding of concepts. Thoughts on (im)perfective imperatives / Johan van der Auwera, Andrej Malchukov, and Ewa Schalley; title: Animacy and argument hierarchy in conflict: constraints on object-topicalization in Korean / Yong-Min Shin and Elisabeth Verhoeven; title: A.3. Limits of the exponence of functions: zero. Zero and nothing in Jarawara / R.M.W. Dixon; title: Clause linkage in a language without coordination: the adjoined clause in Iatmul / Gerd Jendraschek; title: B. Semasiological perspective: from form to function; title: B.1. Establishing categories and relations. Once more on linguistic categories / Paolo Ramat; title: Questions surrounding the basic notions of the word, lexie, morpheme, and lexeme / Christian Touratier; title: Linguistic typology and language theory: the various faces of syntax / Lunella Mereu; title: Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: alignment, extraction, and control / Jürgen Bohnemeyer; title: B.2. Formal typologies. Areal typology of tone-consonant interactions and implosives in Kwa, Kru, and Southern-Mande / Firmin Ahoua; title: The internal structure of adpositional phrases / Silvia Luraghi; title: On the form of complex predicates: toward demystifying serial verbs / Masayoshi Shibatani; title: Conjunctive coordination in Amharic: some typological approaches / Dieter Metzing and Saba Amsalu Teserra; title: Linguistic type and complexity: some remarks / Pierluigi Cuzzolin; title: B.3. Discovering function in the identity of form. Constituent questions and argument-focus constructions: some data from the North-Caucasian languages / Nina Sumbatova; title: "A lot of grammar with a good portion of lexicon": towards a typology of partitive and pseudo-partitive nominal constructions / Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm.