Diese Festschrift wurde dem Sprachwissenschaftler Winfried Boeder (Universitat Oldernburg) zu seinem 65. Geburtstag von seinen Freunden, Kollegen und Schulern zugeeignet. Dem vielseitigen, recht unterschiedliche Aspekte naturlicher Sprachen berucksichtigenden Werk des Jubilars entsprechend, umfasst der Band Studien zu drei verschiedenen, doch miteinander verbundenen Bereichen: zur Philologie (einschlieBlich sprachkultureller Aspekte), zur Sprachtypologie und zur Sprachstruktur (sowohl zur Struktur einzelner Sprachen als auch zum Sprachvergleich). Einen Schwerpunkt bilden Untersuchungen zu kaukasischen Sprachen, ganz besonders zum Georgischen, wobei in vielfaltiger Weise an Analysen des Jubilars angeknupft wurde. This festschrift is cordially and respectfully dedicated to the linguist Winfried Boeder (University of Oldenburg, Germany) to honour him as a friend, colleague and teacher on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Winfried Boeder is not only one of the most distinguished scholars of Caucasian languages b ut he is also widely recognised for the great and continuing contribution he has made to the field of general and comparative linguistics. Accordingly, the present volume includes papers on three separate but related areas: philology (both from a linguistic and cultural point of view), language typology and language structure (including comparative studies). The 25 contribution are thus held together by the links they have with various aspects of winfried Boeder's work. Georgian, a language for which he has a particular affection, is the topic of a large number of papers, both from a synchronic and diachronic point of view.

The typological studies of this volume are oriented towards the areas of interests of the Russian typologist Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, to whom the volume is dedicated. They deal with the typology of verbal categories. The book is divided into three parts: 1. "Ergativity and transitivity," 2. "Voice, causative and valency," 3. "Tense and mood." In all three parts of the volume instances of grammaticalization are pointed out and investigated. The studies concern various languages, e.g. English, French, German, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch, Tariana (a North Arawak language from North West Amazonia), Dumi (a Tibeto-Burman language), and Lak (a Daghestanian language).

Diese Festschrift wurde dem Sprachwissenschaftler Winfried Boeder (Universitat Oldernburg) zu seinem 65. Geburtstag von seinen Freunden, Kollegen und Schulern zugeeignet. Dem vielseitigen, recht unterschiedliche Aspekte naturlicher Sprachen berucksichtigenden Werk des Jubilars entsprechend, umfasst der Band Studien zu drei verschiedenen, doch miteinander verbundenen Bereichen: zur Philologie (einschlieBlich sprachkultureller Aspekte), zur Sprachtypologie und zur Sprachstruktur (sowohl zur Struktur einzelner Sprachen als auch zum Sprachvergleich). Einen Schwerpunkt bilden Untersuchungen zu kaukasischen Sprachen, ganz besonders zum Georgischen, wobei in vielfaltiger Weise an Analysen des Jubilars angeknupft wurde. This festschrift is cordially and respectfully dedicated to the linguist Winfried Boeder (University of Oldenburg, Germany) to honour him as a friend, colleague and teacher on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Winfried Boeder is not only one of the most distinguished scholars of Caucasian languages b ut he is also widely recognised for the great and continuing contribution he has made to the field of general and comparative linguistics. Accordingly, the present volume includes papers on three separate but related areas: philology (both from a linguistic and cultural point of view), language typology and language structure (including comparative studies). The 25 contribution are thus held together by the links they have with various aspects of winfried Boeder's work. Georgian, a language for which he has a particular affection, is the topic of a large number of papers, both from a synchronic and diachronic point of view.