Main description: The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. The volume gives a detailed overview of the system of adverbial adjectives in German, linking the different t…
The structural and semantic properties of adverbials represent a still poorly understood area of sentential syntax and semantics in Germanic languages. The volume gives a detailed overview of the system of adverbial adjectives in German, linking the different types of adverbial …
"Das vorgelegte Buch beruht auf jahrelangen Erfahrungen, die der Autor in der Auseinandersetzung mit der Neuregelung der Orthografie von 1996 und insbesondere als Vertreter der Deutschen Akademie fur Sprache und Dichtung im Rat fur deutsche Rechtschreibung gesammelt hat. Im Erge…
Language Change and Language Structure : Older Germanic Languages in a Comparative Perspective Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM].
Die Deutsche Idiomatik geht auf eine jahrzehntelange Forschung zum Thema und Erfassung des Materials zurück (schrifliche und mündliche Quellen). Ein ausführlicher Vorspann erläutert detailliert die lexikographischen, linguistischen und allgemeineren Kriterien, und eine breite wi…
In this first book-length study of synchronic umlaut, a comprehensive comparative analysis of the phonology and morphology of the umlaut alternation in present-day German and the Austronesian language Chamorro is presented in the framework of Optimality Theory. Umlaut in German …
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest fo…
This monograph addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that-trace effect and other subject/object asymmetries commonly found for long extractions in English and other languages. Using newly developed rating methodologies, the author …
This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between t…
A new theory of grammar which explores the old distinction between OV and VO languages and their underlying basic asymmetry.
The pioneering work of Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm in the areas of Germanic comparative and historical linguistics, lexicography, philology, and medieval studies places them squarely among the most important figures in the history of the language sciences. The contributions to…
Das Buch untersucht eine Auswahl populärer laienlinguistischer Werke über 'gutes Deutsch' unter der Fragestellung, ob die unterschiedlichen politischen Systeme und Ideologien in Deutschland zwischen 1923 und 1967 die Sprach- und Stilauffassung in den Sprachratgebern und Stillehr…
