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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815276503321

Autore

Klein Wolfgang

Titolo

Looking at language / / Wolfgang Klein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-11-054730-9

3-11-054911-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (528 pages)

Collana

Trends in linguistics studies and monographs ; ; Volume 317

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Concepts of time -- A time-relational analysis of Russian aspect -- An analysis of the German Perfekt -- Aspect and assertion in mandarin Chinese -- On times and arguments -- On the "Imperfective paradox" and related problems -- Local deixis in route directions -- Some notorious pitfalls in the analysis of spatial expressions -- Time and again -- On the scope of negation1 -- About the German particles schon and noch -- The information structure of French -- Quaestio and L-perspectivation -- Finiteness, universal grammar and the language faculty -- The basic variety (or: couldn't natural languages be much simpler?) -- Why case marking? -- The grammar of varieties -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The volume presents an essential selection collected from the essays of Wolfgang Klein. In addition to journal and book articles, many of them published by Mouton, this book features new and unpublished texts by the author. It focuses, among other topics, on information structure, the expression of grammatical categories and the structure of learner varieties.