Toward a Typology of European Languages

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 1990

Toward a Typology of European Languages

Edited by: Johannes Bechert , Giuliano Bernini and Claude Buridant

Volume 8 in the series Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863178

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
1. General problems
Standard Average European as an exotic language Östen Dahl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Typological contrasts between pidgin and creole languages in relation to their European language superstrates Suzanne Romaine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Area influence versus typological drift in Western Europe: the case of negation Paolo Ramat and Giuliano Bernini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Deixis
Deixis – a pragmatic universal? Barbara Kryk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Possessive adnominal modifiers Gianguido Manzelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
3. Morphology
The structure of the noun in European languages Johannes Bechert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
L’infinitif dans les langues romanes et les langues germaniques: essai d’approche typologique Claude Buridant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
The infinitive in south-east European languages Emanuele Banfi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Conjugation of the verb in modern Celtic and Basque: from inflection to periphrasis Malachy McKenna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
4. Tense, aspect and modality
Types of tense and aspect systems Wolfgang Raible Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
On the coding of sentential modality Dietmar Zaefferer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
5. Actancy/voice
Caractéristiques actancielles de l’“européen moyen type” Gilbert Lazard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Processes and actions: internal agentless impersonals in some European languages Juan Carlos Moreno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Questions of the investigation of the complements of adjectives in European languages László Dezső Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
6. Complementation and subordination
The evolution of certain patterns in subordination in Romance and English Martin Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Usages normatifs et non normatifs dans les relatives en français, en espagnol et en portugais Claire Blanche-Benveniste Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Adverbial participles, gerunds and absolute constructions in the languages of Europe Ekkehard König and Johan van der Auwera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Index of languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 388
Keywords: Sprache

eBook

Published: April 20, 2011
ISBN: 9783110863178

Hardcover

Published: November 1, 1990
ISBN: 9783110121087