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This volume features nine articles, covering various aspects of
Maltese linguistics: Part I, mostly dedicated to the Maltese
lexicon, opens with Bednarowicz's comparison of Maltese and Arabic
adjectives. Fabri then categorizes various types of constructions
involving the preposition ta' 'of'. The paper by Lucas and Spagnol
discusses Maltese words containing an innovative final /n/. Part II
deals with the syntax of Maltese: Azzopardi's paper focuses on a
construction in Maltese which consists of a sequence of two or more
finite verbs. Just and Ceploe present the first corpus based study
of differential object indexing in Maltese. In Part III on
morphosyntax, Turek analyzes Arabic prepositions in
Classical/Modern Standard Arabic and Arabic dialects and contrasts
them with their Maltese equivalents. Stolz and Vorholt then analyze
the structural and functional similarities and differences of
spatial interrogatives in Maltese and Spanish. Vorholt then
investigates the adpositions of sixteen European languages
including Maltese and examines the relationship between length and
frequency. The volume is closed with Part IV on phonology and
Avram's paper, in which the diachrony of voicing assimilation in
consonant clusters is reconstructed.
As a follow-up study to the global comparison of spatial
interrogatives (Studia Typologica 20), the present book examines
the spatial declarative counterparts which are provided by the
expression class of spatial deictic adverbs. In a functionally
motivated typological approach, equivalents of Early Modern English
here - hither - hence and there - thither - thence are identified
across a sample of 250 languages from all macro-areas. These are
also quantitatively assessed to extrapolate areal and global trends
of coding patterns. The formal relationships between spatial
interrogative and spatial declarative paradigms are analyzed with a
focus on the syncretism of categories and of individual cells.
Qualitative discussions of patterns precede in-depth treatments of
problematic cases and other relevant issues related to the research
topic. The quantitative results strongly point to areal linguistic
trends concerning the distribution of distinct and non-distinct
coding of the three spatial relations Place, Goal, and Source.
Additional aspects such as quantitative evaluations of
constructional complexity are addressed subsequently.
The extant generalizations about the grammar of space rely heavily
on the analyses of declarative sentences. There is a need to check
whether these generalizations also hold in the domain of
interrogation. To this end this book analyzes data from some 450
languages (including non-standard varieties). The focus is on
paradigms of spatial interrogatives such as English where, whither
and whence and their internal organization. These paradigms are
checked for recurrent patterns of morphological mismatches (such as
syncretism) and different degrees of complexity (e.g. the number of
segments). The data-base consists of a large parallel literary
corpus (Le petit prince and translations thereof) which is
complemented by further sources of information such as descriptive
grammars. The data are analyzed from a synchronic perspective.
However, diachronic issues are addressed unsystematically, too. It
is shown that the distribution of phenomena which characterize
paradigms of spatial interrogatives are subject to areal-linguistic
factors. This is the first typological study of spatial
interrogatives. It provides new insights for students of the
grammar of space, morphological paradigms, and language typology.
Der Fokus des Bandes liegt auf Widerspruch als Gegenstandsbereich,
unter den sprachliche Ausdrucksformen von Entgegensetzung,
Paradoxie, Luge und Einspruch ebenso fallen wie linguistische
Methoden des Umgangs mit Widerspruch und Widerspruchlichkeiten in
der sprachwissenschaftlichen Disziplinengeschichte. Dabei stellt
sich die Linguistik nicht als homogene, sondern vielmehr als eine
heterogene, vielseitige Disziplin dar, die es erlaubt, den
Forschungsgegenstand aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln zu betrachten;
die Beitragenden prasentieren insofern verschiedene
innerdisziplinare Schwerpunkte von linguistischer
Widerspruchsanalyse, darunter der Blick auf Sprachhandlungen zum
Ausdruck von Widerspruch in wissenschaftlichen, historischen,
(post)kolonialen, narrativen oder alltaglichen Diskursen. Es werden
einzelsprachliche Untersuchungen nicht nur europaischer Sprachen
vorgenommen, sondern auch die crosslinguistische Vielfalt von
widerspruchsindizierenden Konstruktionen betrachtet.
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