Focus on Germanic Typology / / hrsg. von Werner Abraham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Abraham, Werner,; Barđdal, Jóhanna,; Boeckx, Cedric,; Conradie, C. Jac,; Czepluch, Hartmut,; Diesing, Molly,; Drinka, Bridget,; Grohmann, Kleanthes K.,; Mcwhorter, John H.,; Molnárfi, László,; Sigurdsson, Halldór Ármann,; Thieroff, Rolf,; Webelhuth, Gert,
• HerausgeberIn: Abraham, Werner,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Akademie Verlag, , [2014]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: German
• Series: Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

Aus dem Inhalt: Werner Abraham und Gert Webelhuth Words of dedication for Hartmut Czepluch Werner Abraham Introduction John H. McWhorter What happened to English? Halldór Ármann Sigurdsson Agree and Agreement - Evidence from Germanic Jóhanna 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 Präteritumschwund: 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? László Molnárfi Some remarks on the formal typology of pronouns in West Germanic Rolf Thieroff The subjunctive mood in German and in the Germanic languages

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Words of dedication for Hartmut Czepluch -- Introduction -- What happened to English? -- Agree and agreement: evidence from Germanic -- The semantics of the impersonal construction in Icelandic, German and Faroese: beyond thematic roles -- Left dislocation in Germanic -- Verb sequence and placement: Afrikaans and Dutch compared -- Reflections on the form and function of passives in English and German -- The upper functional domain in Yiddish -- Präteritumschwund: evidence for areal diffusion -- The European demise of the simple past and the emergence of the periphrastic perfect: areal diffusion or natural, autonomous evolution under parsing facilitation? -- Some remarks on the formal typology of pronouns in West Germanic -- The subjunctive mood in German and in the Germanic languages -- List of authors