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 Ic...

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