Claudio Meola
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A systematic description of the semantics of connectives is a challenge that linguists have yet to answer. In order to define semantic classes such as "causal", "concessive", "temporal" according to objectivizable criteria, to classify them, and to describe their relationship to one another, it is important to consider the polysemy phenomena of connectives. The interaction with syntactic, information-structural and intonational structure must also...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Concern for the German language will always attract large audiences. Whoever claims that language is going to the dogs can be sure of the approbation of those who see themselves as linguistically superior. However, the status of grammatical rules is seldom questioned. It is in fact by no means clear what can be seen as correct German. How is 'German' to be understood? Who determines what should be regarded as correct? The 44th Annual Conference of...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
What is the status and image of German in comparison to other languages? What role does German play as an academic teaching and research subject in non-German-speaking countries? The papers in this volume examine contemporary and historical external views of the German language. The authors are specialists in German studies from outside the German-speaking world, together with a few from within Germany.
Wie erscheint die deutsche Sprache im Vergleich...