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Whose German?
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 158.00The author addresses a number of issues in German and general phonology, using a specific problem in German phonology (the ach/ich alternation) as a springboard. These issues include especially the naturalness, or lack thereof, of the prescriptive standard in German, and the importance of colloquial pronunciations, as well as historical and dialect... more...
An Introduction to Old Frisian
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 158.00This is the first text book to offer a comprehensive approach to Old Frisian. Part One begins with a succinct survey of the history of the Frisians during the Middle Ages, their society and literary culture. Next follow chapters on the phonology, morphology, word formation and syntax of Old Frisian. This part is concluded by a chapter on the Old Frisian... more...
Extraction Asymmetries
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 158.00This monograph addresses divergent views in the linguistic literature on whether German displays the that -trace effect and other subject/object asymmetries commonly found for long extractions in English and other languages. Using newly developed rating methodologies, the author exposes consistent and robust subject/object asymmetries in German ?... more...
Focus Particles in German
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 158.00This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present a particularly well-suited subject for the investigation... more...
Lexical Template Morphology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 165.00While there have been many attempts in the literature to account for the semantics and syntax of individual German(ic)prefixes, this is the first time that the prefixes have been analysed in a unified way and a framework established that is capable of relating the prefixes to each other and to other areas of the grammar. The templates provide the means... more...
Studies in West Frisian Grammar
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 158.00In this volume, Germen de Haan gives a multi-faceted view of the syntax, sociolinguistics, and phonology of West-Frisian. The author discusses distinct aspects of the syntax of verbs in Frisian: finiteness and Verb Second, embedded root phenomena, the verbal complex, verbal complementation, and complementizer agreement. Because Frisian has minority... more...
Middle Voice
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 195.00This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent theories of binding. The ambiguity of the reflexive... more...
The Verbal Complex in Subordinate Clauses from Medieval to Modern German
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 149.00This research monograph is an empirical and theoretical study of clause-final verbal complexes in the history of German. The book presents corpus studies of Middle High German and Early New High German and surveys of contemporary varieties of German. These investigations of the verbal complex address not only the frequencies of the word orders, but... more...
Handbuch interkulturelle Germanistik
J.B. Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2003; US$ 110.15Hauptbeschreibung "Interkulturelle Germanistik" bezeichnet eine auslandsbezogene germanistische Kulturwissenschaft, die ihre Studierenden auf Berufe in der internationalen Zusammenarbeit vorbereitet. Das Handbuch wendet sich zudem an lehrende Kulturforscher und Kulturvermittler, an Hochschullehrer, Deutschlehrer und Kulturpolitiker aus aller Welt.... more...
Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2010; US$ 150.00Das Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte wendet sich dezidiert sprachhistorischen Inhalten, Methoden und Gegenständen sowie ihrer Relevanz im Rahmen einer zeitgenössischen Germanistik zu und bildet damit ein Forum zur aktuellen Sprachgeschichtsforschung. Die Konzeption des Jahrbuchs ergibt sich wesentlich... more...









