This volume studies how speakers deal with loanwords from foreign languages. Are foreign words adapted in pronunciation, writing, flexion and syntax to the recipient language or do they keep characteristics of the language of their origin? Do loan units change the system of the …
"This volume contains 30 articles covering papyrological topics that provide important contributions to the history of Romance language studies. Among the topics dealt with are the relevance of papyrology for other disciplines (Romance and German studies), the Greek and Latin 'S…
Main description: The contributions in this grammar-theoretical volume examine current developmental trends in German under the aspect of changing coding techniques. These tendencies include morpho-syntactical changes in the realization of aspect, tense and mode as well as tende…
Die Beitrge dieses grammatiktheoretischen Bandes untersuchen aktuelle Entwicklungstendenzen im Deutschen unter dem Aspekt der Vernderung von Kodierungstechniken. Zu diesen Tendenzen gehren u.a. morpho-syntaktische Vernderungen in der Realisierung von Aspekt, Tempus und Modus, Ab…
Biographical note: Rüdiger Harnisch, Universität Passau.
Als „Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung" werden Reanalyse-Vorgänge behandelt, bei denen sprachliche Einheiten auf der Skala der Konstruktionsebenen - Phonologie, Morphologie, Lexik - aufsteigen („Degrammatikalisierung") und sich von synthetisch-intransparenten zu analytisch-trans…
Main description: Why do languages change? The proposal that the grammar of negation evolves according to cycles is looked at from the behaviour of negative items and constructions, mainly through the history of English and French. The studies show that the variation within a la…
