Words: Structure, Meaning, Function : : A Festschrift for Dieter Kastovsky / / ed. by Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Nikolaus Ritt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Ahlqvist, Anders,; Anderson, John,; Breivik, Leiv Egil,; Carls, Uwe,; Colman, Fran,; Diller, Hans-Jürgen,; Dressler, Wolfgang U.,; Fischer, Andreas,; Fisiak, Jacek,; Görlach, Manfred,; Hansen, Klaus,; Hickey, Raymond,; Holmes, Patsy L.,; Hüllen, Werner,; Jucker, Andreas H.,; Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara,; Lass, Roger,; Lipka, Leonhard,; Ljung, Magnus,; Ládanyi, Mária,; Mettinger, Arthur,; Minkova, Donka,; Nagle, Stephen J.,; Nevalainen, Terttu,; Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena,; Rissanen, Matti,; Schendl, Herbert,; Stein, Gabriele,; Stockwell, Robert,; Swan, Toril,; Tottie, Gunnel,; Winter, Werner,
• HerausgeberIn: Dalton-Puffer, Christiane,; Ritt, Nikolaus,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 130
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.) :; 1 frontispiece

Table of Contents

• I-VIII
• Contents
• Tabula Gratulatoria
• Publications by Dieter Kastovsky
• Introduction
• Old Irish dúilem ‘maker, creator’
• The importance of being Leofwine Horn
• The desemanticisation of existential there in a synchronic-diachronic perspective
• Anti- and pro- in Indian English
• The meaning of naked and a theory of metaphor
• On contrastive word formation: German and Hungarian denominal adjective formation
• The greening of greening
• Middle English beck in the Midlands: the place-name evidence
• Conceptual and semantic change in the history of English
• Genitive case or determinative phrase? The status of 's forms in Modern English
• Direction and location in Modern Irish
• John Locke, semanticist
• Thou in the history of English: a case for historical semantics or pragmatics?
• Diminutives: an interface of word formation, semantics and pragmatics
• Which end is your head on? Typological remarks on Modern Persian
• Word-formation and (proper) names: a neglected field
• Text condensation in the press: the case of compound adjectival premodifiers
• On the semantics of the English double modals
• The third-person singular -(E)S and -(E)TH revisited: the morphophonemic hypothesis
• Paths of loan-word grammaticalisation: the case of according to
• The third person present plural in Shakespeare's First Folio: A case of interaction of morphology and syntax?
• The function of word-formation and the case of English -cum-
• What happened to Old English clitic pronouns and why?
• Tall As He Was: On the meaning of complements-as-constructions
• Eyes and ears
• Subject index