| Focus on Germanic Typology Contributor(s): Abraham, Werner (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3050041064 ISBN-13: 9783050041063 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $107.10 Product Type: Hardcover Language: German Published: February 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Foreign Language Study | German |
| Dewey: 430 |
| LCCN: 2005421046 |
| Series: Studia Typologica |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.71 lbs) 360 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Aus dem Inhalt: Werner Abraham und Gert Webelhuth Words of dedication for Hartmut Czepluch Werner Abraham Introduction John H. McWhorter What happened to English? Halld r rmann Sigurdsson Agree and Agreement - Evidence from Germanic J hanna 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 Pr teritumschwund: 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? L szl Moln rfi Some remarks on the formal typology of pronouns in West Germanic Rolf Thieroff The subjunctive mood in German and in the Germanic languages |