: Johannes Helmbrecht, Yoko Nishina, Yong-Min Shin, Stavros Skopeteas, Elisabeth Verhoeven
: Form and Function in Language Research Papers in Honour of Christian Lehmann
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110216134
: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN
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Language description enriches linguistic theory and linguistic theory sharpens language description. Based on this assumption, the volume presents theoretical and empirical studies that explore the explanatory power of functional-typological linguistics for the investigation of the world's languages.

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Johannes Helmbrecht, University of Regensburg, Germany;Yoko Nishina, University of Erfurt, Germany;Yong-Min Shin, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea;Stavros Skopeteas, University of Potsdam, Germany;Elisabeth Verhoeven, University of Bremen, Germany.
Frontmatter1
Contents7
Glosses11
Introduction13
The continuum of pragmaticity: a sketch23
Weighing semantic distinctions in person forms37
Spatial reciprocity: between grammar and lexis69
A chapter in marginal possession: on being six(ty) in Europe (and beyond)81
Thoughts on (im)perfective imperatives105
Animacy and argument hierarchy in conflict: constraints on object-topicalization in Korean119
Zero and nothing in Jarawara137
Clause linkage in a language without coordination: the adjoined clause in Iatmul151
Once more on linguistic categories163
Questions surrounding the basic notions of the word, lexie, morpheme, and lexeme169
Linguistic typology and language theory: the various faces of syntax179
Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: alignment, extraction, and control197
Areal typology of tone-consonant interaction and implosives in Kwa, Kru, and Southern-Mande229
The internal structure of adpositional phrases243
On the form of complex predicates: toward demystifying serial verbs267
Conjunctive coordination in Amharic: some typological approaches295
Linguistic type and complexity: some remarks313
Constituent questions and argument-focus constructions: some data from the North-Caucasian languages325
“A lot of grammar with a good portion of lexicon”: towards a typology of partitive and pseudopartitive nominal constructions341
Backmatter359