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
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110216127
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax; Typology (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Johannes Helmbrecht, Yoko Nishina, Yong-Min Shin, Stavros Skopeteas, Elisabeth Verhoeven; title: A. Onomasiological Perspective: From Function to Form: 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 Formal Encoding of Functional Concepts: Thoughts on (im)perfective imperatives / Johan van der Auwera, Andrej Malchukov, and Ewa Schalley; title: Animacy hierarchy and argument hierarchy in conflict: Constraints on object-topicalization in Korean / Yong-Min Shin and Elisabeth Verhoeven; title: A.3. The Limits of the Formal Exponence of Functions: Zero Zero and nothing in Jarawara / Robert 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: B.1. Establishing Cross-Linguistic Categories and Relations: Once more on linguistic categories / Paolo Ramat; title: Questions around the basic notion 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: Towards demystifying serial verbs / Matt 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; title: Index.