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Swedish: An Essential Grammar
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 45.95This fully revised second edition of Swedish: An Essential grammar incorporates the changes proposed to the Swedish grammar by Svenska Akademiens Grammatik. All examples have been fully updated, the bibliography has been expanded and a number of tables clarified. Swedish: An Essential grammar provides a fresh and accessible description of... more...
Derivations and Evaluations
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00This study shows that Scandinavian object shift and so-called A-scrambling in the continental Germanic languages are the same, and aims at providing an account of the variation that we find with respect to this phenomenon by combining certain aspects of the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory. More specifically, it is claimed that representations... more...
The Phonology of Danish
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 274.99The book is the most comprehensive account of the phonology of Danish ever published in any language. It gives a clear analysis of the sound patterns of modern Danish and examines the relations between its speech sounds and grammar. The author develops new models for the analysis of phonology and morphology-phonology interactions, and shows how these... more...
The Syntax of Old Norse
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 48.99This is the first account of Old Norse syntax for almost a hundred years and the first ever in a non-Scandinavian language. The language of the Vikings and of the Old Icelandic sagas is the best documented medieval Germanic language: the author presents a full analysis of its syntax and overviews of its phonology and morphology. He includes a complete... more...
Information Structure and Language Change
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 182.00The book addresses one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in diachronic syntax, namely, word order variation and change in older Germanic. It presents a novel approach that explains these issues not in terms of parameters and parameter change or in terms of competition between two grammars, but in terms of competition between information-structurally... more...
Weltflucht
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 182.00The study is devoted to the thought patterns and forms of presentation of transience and renunciation of the world in lyric and epic poetry from the 12th to 15th centuries. As secular poetry is itself 'the world's work', it presents a fortunate fundamental paradox? flight from the world in poetry is always accompanied by a latent reference to the world.... more...
Kontrastive Phonologie des Deutschen und Dänischen
De Gruyter 1985; US$ 126.00Kontrastive Phonologie des Deutschen und Dänischen : Segmentale Wortphonologie und -phonetik more...
Linksverschachtelung im Deutschen und Norwegischen
De Gruyter 1983; US$ 126.00Linksverschachtelung im Deutschen und Norwegischen: Eine kontrastive Untersuchung zur Satzverschränkung und Infinitivverschränkung in der deutschen ... Gegenwartssprache (Linguistische Arbeiten) more...
Präteritopräsentia
De Gruyter 1987; US$ 154.00PR Teritopr Sentia: Morphologische Entwicklungen Einer Sonderklasse in Den Altgermanischen Sprachen. more...
Querdenker der Aufklärung
Wallstein Verlag 2013; US$ 30.18Hauptbeschreibung Johann Georg Hamann wurde in der älteren literaturgeschichtlichen Forschung vielfach als bloßer Vorläufer Herders betrachtet, dessen literarischer Spürsinn und irrationaler Glaube ihren Ausdruck in orakelnden Aphorismen fanden und deswegen von der jüngeren Generation als krauses Originalgenie verehrt wurde. Die völlig disparate... more...









