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  • On the Formal Syntax of the Westgermaniaby Werner Abraham

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1983; US$ 158.00

    It has often been noted that Dutch (and Frisian) reflects a particular stage of development between German and English. Phonologically, syntactically and morphologically, Dutch and German are closely related languages. Yet, there remain sufficient morphosyntactic differences in terms of language development. The contributions of this collection focus... more...

  • Issues in Formal German(ic) Typologyby Werner Abraham; Jan-Wouter Zwart

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 195.00

    This book takes up a variety of general syntactic topics, which either yield different solutions in German, in particular, or which lead to different conclusions for theory formation. One of the main topics is the fact that languages that allow for extensive scrambling between the two verbal poles, V-2 and V-last, need to integrate discourse functions... more...

  • Comparative Germanic Syntaxby Peter Ackema; Rhona Alcorn; Caroline Heycock; Dany Jaspers; Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck; Guido Vanden Wyngaerd

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 158.00

    The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data from a wide range of... more...

  • Exploring Newspaper Languageby Gisle Andersen

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 149.00

    This book describes new methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents recent research based on the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus. This is a large monitor corpus of contemporary Norwegian language, compiled through daily harvesting of web newspapers. The book gives an overview of the corpus and its system architecture, and... more...

  • Runes and Germanic Linguisticsby Elmer H. Antonsen

    De Gruyter 2002; US$ 168.00

    The older runic inscriptions (ca. AD 150 - 450) represent the earliest attestation of any Germanic language. The close relationship of these inscriptions to the archaic Mediterranean writing traditions is demonstrated through the linguistic and orthographic analysis presented here. The extraordinary importance of these inscriptions for a proper understanding... more...

  • A Concise Grammar of the Older Runic Inscriptionsby Elmer H. Antonsen

    De Gruyter 1975; US$ 126.00

    Concise Grammar of the Older Runic Inscriptions. more...

  • STAEFCRAEFTby Elmer H. Antonsen; Hans Henrich Hock

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 158.00

    The first Symposium on Germanic Linguistics was organized at the University of Chicago by Jan Terje Faarlund. The notable success of this undertaking led Elmer H. Antonsen, Hans Henrich Hock, and James W. Marchand to arrange the Second Symposium on Germanic Linguistics at the University of Illinois. This volume contains revised versions of selected... more...

  • The Grimm Brothers and the Germanic Pastby Elmer H. Antonsen; James W. Marchand; Ladislav Zgusta

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1990; US$ 158.00

    The pioneering work of Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm in the areas of Germanic comparative and historical linguistics, lexicography, philology, and medieval studies places them squarely among the most important figures in the history of the language sciences. The contributions to this volume present a fascinating and timely reevaluation and reaffirmation... more...

  • Drei Studien zum Germanischen in alter und neuer Zeitby John Ole Askedal; Harald Bjorvand; Ottar Grønvik

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1995; US$ 44.00

    Der vorliegende Band ist ein Ergebnis der Arbeit im Bereich der vergleichen den germanischen Sprachwissenschaft am Germanistischen Institut der Universität Oslo. Im Beitrag von Harald Bjorvand wird gezeigt, daß die Zahl der maskulinen Verbalnomina mit i -Stamm bildung aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach wesentlich größer ist, als bisher angenommen wurde.... more...

  • Productivityby Jóhanna Barðdal

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 143.00

    Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: ?extensibility?, ?regularity?, and ?generality?. The focus in this study of case and argument structure constructions in Icelandic is on the concept... more...