Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (424 p.)
Disciplina	415
Altri autori (Persone)	WohlgemuthJan CysouwMichael
Collana	Empirical approaches to language typology
Soggetto topico	Typology (Linguistics) Linguistic universals Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN	1-283-16522-8 9786613165220 3-11-022855-6
Classificazione	ES 425
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Unexpected non-anaphoric marking in Aleut / Berge, Anna -- The nature of consonant sequences in Modern Georgian / Butskhrikidze, Marika -- When typological rara generate rarissima: analogical extension of verbal agreement in Dutch dialects / De Vogelaer, Gunther / Auwera, Johan van der -- Social-deixis classifiers in Weining Ahmao / Gerner, Matthias / Bisang, Walter -- "She kisses her late husband" = "She kissed her husband": nominal tense in Movima / Haude, Katharina -- The accentual system of Hocąk / Helmbrecht, Johannes -- Affixation by place of articulation: the case of Tiene / Hyman, Larry M. -- Future tense to express habitual past or present, and past tense to express immediate future / Kelkar-Stephan, Leena -- Abui tripartite verbs: exploring the limits of compositionality / Klamer, Marian / Kratochvíl, František -- Ideophones and templatic morphology in Totonac / McFarland, Teresa -- Subtractive plural morphology in Sinhala / Nitz, Eike / Nordhoff, Sebastian -- The Dravidian zero negative: diachronic context of its morphogenesis and conceptualisation / Pilot-Raichoor, Christiane -- Relative root complement: a unique grammatical relation in Algonquian syntax / Rhodes, Richard A. -- Mawng lexicalised agreement in typological perspective / Singer, Ruth -- Syllabic Obstruents in Ahtna Athabaskan / Tuttle, Siri G. -- The puzzle of two terms for red in Hungarian / Uusküla, Mari / Sutrop, Urmas -- Possessive voice in Wolof: a rare type of valency operator / Voisin-Nouguier, Sylvie -- Index
Altri titoli varianti	Rara and rarissima
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910139256103321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (358 p.)
Disciplina	401/.43
Altri autori (Persone)	EvansNicholas
Collana	Typological studies in language (TSL)
Soggetto topico	Semantics Typology (Linguistics)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-23447-5 9786613234476 90-272-8662-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Reciprocals and Semantic Typology; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Reciprocals and semantic typology; 2. The semantics of reciprocal constructions across languages; 3. Semantics of Khoekhoe reciprocal constructions; 4. Reciprocal constructions in English: Each other and beyond; 5. Reciprocal constructions in Indo-Pakistani Sign Language; 6. Mundari reciprocals; 7. Description of reciprocal situations in Lao; 8. Reciprocal constructions in Mah Meri; 9. The coding of reciprocal events in Jahai 10. Reciprocals in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island11. Reciprocals in Rotokas; 12. Expression of reciprocity in Savosavo; 13. To have and have not: Kilivila reciprocals; 14. Strategies for encoding reciprocity in Mawng; 15. Reciprocal-marked and marked reciprocal events in Kuuk Thaayorre; 16. Reciprocal constructions in Olutec; 17. Reciprocal constructions in Tsafiki; 18. Reciprocal constructions in Hup; 19. Reciprocals and semantic typology: Some concluding remarks; Addresses; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461295103321

Autore	Hendery Rachel
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (293 p.)
Disciplina	415
Collana	Typological studies in language (TSL)
Soggetto topico	Grammar, Comparative and general - Relative clauses Space and time in language Typology (Linguistics) Historical linguistics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-87948-3 9786613720795 90-272-7368-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Relative Clauses in Time and Space; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1 What is diachronic typology?; 1.1.1 Typology as a tool for investigating language change; 1.1.2 Historical linguistics as a tool for investigating typology; 1.2 About this book; 1.2.1 Demonstrating the methods of diachronic typology; 1.2.2 Why use relative clauses as a case study? Some methodological considerations; 1.3 A brief introduction to the relative clause; 1.3.1 What is a relative clause? 1.3.2 The types and subtypes of relative clauses1.3.3 Relative clause markers; 1.3.4 Relative clauses around the world; 1.3.5 Relative clauses through time; 2. Sources and extension of grammatical markers; 2.1 Types of relationship between grammatical markers; 2.2 Case studies of sources and extensions; 2.2.1 Pronouns; 2.2.2 Classifiers and generic nouns; 2.2.3 Discourse markers; 2.2.4 Possessives; 2.2.5 Comparatives; 2.2.6 Adverbial clauses; 2.2.7 Complement clauses; 2.2.8 General subordination; 2.2.9 Adjective markers; 2.2.10 General linkers; 2.2.11 Less well-documented extensions 2.3 Conclusions: What came from where, when and why?3. Other types of relationship between grammatical markers; 3.1 Redistribution of markers; 3.2 Loss of markers; 3.2.1 Loss and general typological change; 3.3 Formal changes; 3.3.1 From invariant complementiser to inflecting pronoun and vice versa; 3.3.2 From free-standing marker to verb affix; 3.4.1 Relative clause markers in space and time; 3.4.2 Relative clause markers and language contact; 3.4.3 Implications for the methods of diachronic typology; 4. Syntactic change in the development of RC constructions 4.1 The origins of embedded clauses4.2 Deranking and balancing of verb forms; 4.3 Correlatives; 4.4 Change in clause order; 4.4.1 Relative clauses that follow the head; 4.4.2 Relative clauses that precede the head; 4.5 Syntax: What's where, when and why?; 4.5.1 Stability; 4.5.2 Implications for the methods of diachronic typology; 5. Relevant factors in language change: The importance of contact; 5.1 'Basic word order' as a factor in relative clause change; 5.2 Other word order 'harmonies' as a factor in relative clause change; 5.3 Embedding as a factor in relative clause change 5.4 The relationship between grammatical marker type and syntactic change5.5 The relevance of language family affiliation to relative clause change; 5.6 Language contact and relative clause change; 5.7 The relative influence of internal and external factors; 6. Conclusions; 6.1 What's where when? Mapping relative clauses in three dimensions; 6.2 and why: Processes and mechanisms; 6.3 Language contact; 6.4 Implications for the structure of relative clauses; 6.5 Implications for taxonomies of relative clause types; 6.6 The methods of diachronic typology; References; Appendices A. Constructions
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452438203321

Autore	Murelli Adriano
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (500 p.)
Disciplina	417
Collana	Empirical approaches to language typology
Soggetto topico	Language and languages - Variation Grammar, Comparative and general - Relative clauses Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Dialectology Typology (Linguistics)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-42996-9 9786613429964 3-11-023879-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Theoretical and methodological premises -- Chapter 1. Theoretical background -- Chapter 2. Data sources -- Chapter 3. Data classification -- Part 2. An areal study of non-standard relative constructions in European languages -- Chapter 4. Typological issues -- Chapter 5. Sociolinguistic issues -- Chapter 6. Diachronic issues -- Part 3. Corpus-based language-specific case studies -- Chapter 7. Presentative constructions in German discussion forums -- Chapter 8. Relative constructions in a spoken Russian corpus -- Summary and outlook -- Appendix A - The language sample -- Appendix B - The questionnaires -- Notes -- References -- Index of languages -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910464228703321