This work is a reference grammar of Hup, a member of the Nadahup family (also known as Maku or Vaupes-Japura), which is spoken in the fascinatingly multilingual Vaupes region of the northwest Amazon.
The volume is dedicated to the German linguist Wolfgang Ullrich "e;Gustav"e; Wurzel (1940-2001), who has influenced linguistic thought in his work on paradigm-based morphology.
As a contribution to the ongoing discussion of the genesis of the Germanic language, this book investigates the strong verbs of Proto-Germanic using a new approach that combines historical and typological morphology with quantitative etymology.
It is a fact that tense, aspect and modality together form one of the most recurring and active areas of research in contemporary syntax and semantics, as well as in other disciplines of linguistics.
The renewed focus on the evidential base of linguistics in general, but particularly on syntax, is in to a large degree dependent on technological developments: computers, electronic storage and transmission.
This volume draws together papers that argue for a renewed focus on the role of hard constraints on phonological representations as well as the processes that operate on them.
A Grammar of Mongsen Ao, the result of the author's fieldwork over a ten-year period, presents the first comprehensive grammatical description of a language spoken in Nagaland, north-east India.
Die weiterführenden Relativsätze stellen einen grammatiktheoretisch interessanten Phänomenbereich dar, da sie einerseits wurzelsatztypische Eigenschaften aufweisen, sich andererseits aber wie typische Nebensätze verhalten.
The contributions included in this collection present different perspectives on various aspects of Maltese Linguistics, thereby enriching a field which has been attracting considerably greater interest in recent years than was the case in the past.
This in-depth areal-typological study analyzes the grammatical means which are employed in the languages of Europe to express the comparative of inequality/superiority.
This volume contributes to a linguistic program characterized by the view that explanatory goals in syntax and semantics can be met only in models that are sufficiently formalized.
Modale Infinitkonstruktionen vom Typ (i) Die Aufgaben sind zu lösen, (ii) einige zu lösende Aufgaben sowie (iii) Sie hat die Aufgaben zu lösen werfen für alle, die sich mit Modalität, Passiv oder Infinitheit im Deutschen beschäftigen, interessante Fragen auf.
Dieser Band versammelt zehn Aufsatze, in denen Monosyllaba in verschiedenen Sprachen Asiens, Afrikas und Europas aus unterschiedlichsten Perspektiven betrachtet werden.
Der vorliegende Band bietet vielfältige Herangehensweisen zu den Sprachen der indigenen Völker Amerikas – zu den großen Sprachen (Guaraní, Zapotekisch, Otomí, klassisches Aztekisch) ebenso wie zu den kleinen (Mosetén, Cabécar).
Die unterschiedlichen Eigenschaften von Infinitivkonstruktionen in natürlichen Sprachen stellen ein Problem für die Erklärungskraft syntaktischer Theorien dar.
