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Toward a typology of European languages / edited by Johannes Bechert, Giuliano Bernini, Claude Buridant.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
- Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Europe--Languages.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Toward a Typology of European Languages Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]
- Contents:
- Front matter
- 1. General problems
- Standard Average European as an exotic language Östen Dahl / Dahl, Östen
- Typological contrasts between pidgin and creole languages in relation to their European language superstrates Suzanne Romaine / Romaine, Suzanne
- Area influence versus typological drift in Western Europe: the case of negation Paolo Ramat and Giuliano Bernini / Ramat, Paolo / Bernini, Giuliano
- 2. Deixis
- Deixis - a pragmatic universal? Barbara Kryk / Kryk, Barbara
- Possessive adnominal modifiers Gianguido Manzelli / Manzelli, Gianguido
- 3. Morphology
- The structure of the noun in European languages Johannes Bechert / Bechert, Johannes
- L'infinitif dans les langues romanes et les langues germaniques: essai d'approche typologique Claude Buridant / Buridant, Claude
- The infinitive in south-east European languages Emanuele Banfi / Banfi, Emanuele
- Conjugation of the verb in modern Celtic and Basque: from inflection to periphrasis Malachy McKenna / McKenna, Malachy
- 4. Tense, aspect and modality
- Types of tense and aspect systems Wolfgang Raible / Raible, Wolfgang
- On the coding of sentential modality Dietmar Zaefferer / Zaefferer, Dietmar
- 5. Actancy/voice
- Caractéristiques actancielles de l'"européen moyen type" Gilbert Lazard / Lazard, Gilbert
- Processes and actions: internal agentless impersonals in some European languages Juan Carlos Moreno / Moreno, Juan Carlos
- Questions of the investigation of the complements of adjectives in European languages László Dezső / Dezső, László
- 6. Complementation and subordination
- The evolution of certain patterns in subordination in Romance and English Martin Harris / Harris, Martin
- Usages normatifs et non normatifs dans les relatives en français, en espagnol et en portugais Claire Blanche-Benveniste / Blanche-Benveniste, Claire
- Adverbial participles, gerunds and absolute constructions in the languages of Europe Ekkehard König and Johan van der Auwera / König, Ekkehard / Auwera, Johan van der
- Index of names
- Index of languages
- Index of subjects
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783110863178
- 3110863170
- OCLC:
- 843635123
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