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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785838803321

Titolo

Toward a typology of European languages [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Johannes Bechert, Giuliano Bernini, Claude Buridant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990

ISBN

3-11-086317-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; ; 8

Classificazione

ES 485

Altri autori (Persone)

BechertJohannes <1931->

BerniniGiuliano

BuridantClaude

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Typology (Linguistics)

Europe Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 1. General problems -- Standard Average European as an exotic language Östen Dahl / Dahl, Östen -- Typological contrasts between pidgin and creole languages in relation to their European language superstrates Suzanne Romaine / Romaine, Suzanne -- Area influence versus typological drift in Western Europe: the case of negation Paolo Ramat and Giuliano Bernini / Ramat, Paolo / Bernini, Giuliano -- 2. Deixis -- Deixis - a pragmatic universal? Barbara Kryk / Kryk, Barbara -- Possessive adnominal modifiers Gianguido Manzelli / Manzelli, Gianguido -- 3. Morphology -- The structure of the noun in European languages Johannes Bechert / Bechert, Johannes -- L'infinitif dans les langues romanes et les langues germaniques: essai d'approche typologique Claude Buridant / Buridant, Claude -- The infinitive in south-east European languages Emanuele Banfi / Banfi, Emanuele -- Conjugation of the verb in modern Celtic and Basque: from inflection to periphrasis Malachy McKenna / McKenna, Malachy -- 4. Tense, aspect and modality -- Types of tense and aspect systems Wolfgang Raible / Raible, Wolfgang -- On the coding of sentential modality Dietmar Zaefferer / Zaefferer, Dietmar -- 5. Actancy/voice -- Caractéristiques actancielles de l'"européen moyen type" Gilbert Lazard / Lazard, Gilbert -- Processes and actions: internal agentless impersonals in some European languages Juan Carlos Moreno / Moreno, Juan Carlos --



Questions of the investigation of the complements of adjectives in European languages László Dezső / Dezső, László -- 6. Complementation and subordination -- The evolution of certain patterns in subordination in Romance and English Martin Harris / Harris, Martin -- Usages normatifs et non normatifs dans les relatives en français, en espagnol et en portugais Claire Blanche-Benveniste / Blanche-Benveniste, Claire -- Adverbial participles, gerunds and absolute constructions in the languages of Europe Ekkehard König and Johan van der Auwera / König, Ekkehard / Auwera, Johan van der -- Index of names -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Toward a Typology of European Languages  Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]