Klaus von Heusinger
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Although the interest in the concept of partitivity has continuously increased in the last decades and has given rise to considerable advances in research, the fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. There are two main obstacles to this: on the one hand, theoretical linguistics and typological linguistics are fragmented...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
After a "first wave" of traditional studies on prepositional accusatives and a "second wave" exploring the typological dimensions of Differential Object Marking in Bossong's footsteps, a new line of research is currently introducing new methods, deepening the level of analysis, and offering new perspectives on the issue. This volume presents 11 innovative, original contributions representative of this "third wave" of studies on DOM in Romance.
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Cross-language comparison can show where German structures diverge from and converge with those of other languages. The essays in the 2011 Yearbook of the Institute for German Language compare German with other languages on all grammatical levels, from photetics, phonology, graphematics, and morphology to syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and text grammar. In addition, the book presents new methods of language comparison from corpus linguistics. The...