Focus on Germanic Typology by Werner Abraham
Aus dem Inhalt: Werner Abraham und Gert Webelhuth Words of dedication for Hartmut Czepluch Werner Abraham Introduction John H. McWhorter What happened to English? Halldór Ármann Sigurdsson Agree and Agreement - Evidence from Germanic Jóhanna Barddal The semantics of the impersonal construction in Icelandic, German and Faroese: beyond thematic roles Cedric Boeckx und Kleanthes K. Grohmann Left dislocation in Germanic Jac C. Conradie Verb sequence and placement: Afrikaans and Dutch compared Hartmut Czepluch ((Sterbezeichen)) Reflections on the form and function of passives in English and German Molly Diesing The upper functional domain in Yiddish Bridget Drinka Präteritumschwund: evidence for areal difussion Werner Abraham The European demise of the simple past and the emergence of the periphrastic perfect: Areal diffusion or natural, autonomous evolution under parsing facilitation? László Molnárfi Some remarks on the formal typology of pronouns in West Germanic Rolf Thieroff The subjunctive mood in German and in the Germanic languages-
Proper Names versus Common Nouns
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Number Categories
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The Next Century of Maltese Linguistics
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The Grammar of Maltese Prepositions
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Special Onymic Grammar in Typological Perspective
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Convergence and Divergence in the Eastern Circum-Baltic Area
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Aspects of Typology and Universals
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Problems of Polysynthesis
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The The Origin of Agent Markers
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Evidential Marking in European Languages
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"Was ich noch sagen wollte..."
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Maltese
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Word Order Variation
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Grammaticalization and Variation
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Reduplication at the Word Level
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Non-Prototypical Reduplication
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Competing Comparative Constructions in Europe
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The Crosslinguistics of Zero-Marking of Spatial Relations
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Perspectives on Maltese Linguistics
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Areal Linguistics within the Phonological Atlas of Europe
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Spatial Interrogatives in Europe and Beyond
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Here Hither Hence and Related Categories
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Grammatical Gender in Maltese
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Advances in Maltese Linguistics
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Maltese Linguistics on the Danube
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Types of Reduplication
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Shifts and Patterns in Maltese
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The Expression of Predicative Possession
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Irregularity in Morphology (and beyond)
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Total Reduplication
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Variation and Change
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Typological Studies in Participation
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Monosyllables
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Morphologies in Contact
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Predicate Compounding in the Yi-Group
Werner Abraham held the Chair of German Philology and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Groningen for 30 years, before he retired. He was appointed Honorary Professor in the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Vienna and presently teaches German(ic) linguistics at the University of Munich. Elisabeth Leiss holds the Chair of German Linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. She is Head of the BA/MA Studies in Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Munich. Her main focus is on all aspects of categorization in language and mind.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783050041063 |
| ISBN 10 | 3050041064 |
| Title | Focus on Germanic Typology |
| Author | Werner Abraham |
| Series | Studia Typologica [Sttyp] |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | de Gruyter Akademie Forschung |
| Year published | 2005-02-09 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
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