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German: Syntactic Problems - Problematic Syntax (Hardcover, Reprint 2017): Werner Abraham, Elly van Gelderen German: Syntactic Problems - Problematic Syntax (Hardcover, Reprint 2017)
Werner Abraham, Elly van Gelderen
R4,495 Discovery Miles 44 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The volume assembles eleven articles presenting a linguistic approach to the grammar of German, English and the diachronic forerunners of English. Common to all is a theoretical discussion against the background of Chomskyan minimalism (1993) and more recent developments of it (Kayne 1993, Chomsky 1995), all of which make language typology comparisons an interesting proposition. Some of the articles are critical of certain aspects of these theoretical approaches. For all their claims to descriptive universality, it transpires that they fail to address a number of features specific to German.

Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages (Hardcover): Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss Modality and Theory of Mind Elements across Languages (Hardcover)
Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss
R5,000 Discovery Miles 50 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Modality is the way a speaker modifies her declaratives and other speech acts to optimally assess the common ground of knowledge and belief of the addressee with the aim to optimally achieve understanding and an assessment of relevant information exchange. In languages such as German (and other Germanic languages outside of English), this may happen in covert terms. Main categories used for this purpose are modal adverbials ("modal particles") and modal verbs. Epistemic uses of modal verbs (like German sollen) cover evidential (reportative) information simultaneously providing the source of the information. Methodologically, description and explanation rest on Karl Buhler's concept of Origo as well as Roman Jakobson's concept of shifter. Typologically, East Asian languages such as Japanese pursue these semasiological fundaments far more closely than the European languages. In particular, Japanese has to mark the source of a statement in the declarative mode such that the reliability may be assessed by the hearer. The contributions in this collection provide insight into these modal techniques.

Issues in Germanic Syntax (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Werner Abraham, Wim Kosmeijer, Erich Reuland Issues in Germanic Syntax (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Werner Abraham, Wim Kosmeijer, Erich Reuland
R5,446 Discovery Miles 54 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Funktionen von Modalitat (German, Hardcover): Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss Funktionen von Modalitat (German, Hardcover)
Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss
R4,611 Discovery Miles 46 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The term modality encompasses a number of categories: modal verbs, modal particles, and confirmatory questions. This volume examines, on the one hand, the common features of basic modal and epistemic versions of modal verbs, and, on the other, modal particles. What level of certainty do words of this kind communicate to the listener? This is the key question posed by the work."

Linguistik in Deutschland (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2010 ed.): Werner Abraham, Ritva Arhammar, Linguistisches Kolloquium Linguistik in Deutschland (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2010 ed.)
Werner Abraham, Ritva Arhammar, Linguistisches Kolloquium
R4,825 Discovery Miles 48 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics (Hardcover): Werner Abraham Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics (Hardcover)
Werner Abraham
R3,132 Discovery Miles 31 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression: word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. This state of the art survey proposes a new model of modality, drawing on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic languages to find out what is cross-linguistically universal about modality, and to argue that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.

Tempus - Aspekt - Modus - Die Lexikalischen Und Grammatischen Formen in Den Germanischen Sprachen (German, Hardcover, Reprint... Tempus - Aspekt - Modus - Die Lexikalischen Und Grammatischen Formen in Den Germanischen Sprachen (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2010 ed.)
Werner Abraham, Theo Janssen
R4,824 Discovery Miles 48 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Focus on Germanic Typology (German, Hardcover): Werner Abraham Focus on Germanic Typology (German, Hardcover)
Werner Abraham
R2,753 R2,183 Discovery Miles 21 830 Save R570 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Aus dem Inhalt: Werner Abraham und Gert Webelhuth Words of dedication for Hartmut Czepluch Werner Abraham Introduction John H. McWhorter What happened to English? Halldor Armann Sigurdsson Agree and Agreement - Evidence from Germanic Johanna 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 Prateritumschwund: 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? Laszlo Molnarfi Some remarks on the formal typology of pronouns in West Germanic Rolf Thieroff The subjunctive mood in German and in the Germanic languages"

Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics (Paperback): Werner Abraham Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics (Paperback)
Werner Abraham
R848 Discovery Miles 8 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression: word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. This state of the art survey proposes a new model of modality, drawing on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic languages to find out what is cross-linguistically universal about modality, and to argue that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.

Dialektsyntax (German, Paperback, 1993 ed.): Werner Abraham, Josef Bayer Dialektsyntax (German, Paperback, 1993 ed.)
Werner Abraham, Josef Bayer
R1,397 Discovery Miles 13 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Das Studium von Dialekten stellt einen wichtigen Bereich in der vergleichenden Syntaxforschung dar, der aber in bezug auf die germanischen Sprachen bislang noch stark vernachlassigt ist. Mit dieser Sammlung von dialektsyntaktischen Arbeiten soll ein Anfang gemacht werden, dialektale Varietaten des Deutschen, Friesischen, Jiddischen und Niederlandischen hinsichtlich neuerer Entwicklungen der Syntaxtheorie zu untersuchen. Den theoretischen Rahmen bildet bei der Mehrzahl der Beitrage die Prinzipien- und Parametertheorie, die sich in der vergleichenden Syntaxforschung bewahrt hat. Grammatische Phanomene, die thematisiert werden, umfassen klitische Pronomina, das Kasussystem, Infinitivkonstruktionen, Wortstellung und Kongruenz."

Covert Patterns of Modality (Hardcover, Unabridged edition): Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss Covert Patterns of Modality (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
Werner Abraham, Elisabeth Leiss
R1,858 Discovery Miles 18 580 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This typological overview compares the degree to which different languages have means to give expression to modality (possibility, necessity) without lexical and direct inflectional means. The criterial patterns derive from a variety of languages such as German, English, Chinese, French, Scandinavian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Polish, and Gothic as well as Old High German. They encompass mainly the auxiliaries HAVE and BE, together with either an infinitival embedding of a full verb linked by the infinitival preposition TO, or other aspectual means. It is demonstrated that what appears as typical covert modal expressions in the Germanic languages, and the Indo-European ones in a wider sense, cannot be seen as a recurrent pattern in non-Indo-European languages. Yet, there are recurrent and plausible forms that allow for generalizations.

Von den ausserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (German, Paperback): Werner Abraham Gottlob Von den ausserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien (German, Paperback)
Werner Abraham Gottlob
R738 Discovery Miles 7 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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