Product Description: English summary: Grammaticalization is the process of changes in language, in which grammatical units arise from lexical units. But how exactly does such a process occur? Which fields of grammar are affected through such processes? This volume grapples with these and similar questions...read more

Product Description: English summary: This study examines adverbial connectors such as "allerdings," "immerhin," "trotzdem" and "namlich" synchronously and diachronically from both a syntactic and semantic perspective and by means of a corpus analysis...read more

Product Description: The book aims at providing a precise description of part of the Gothic syntax in the context of a formal theory of syntax. The following questions are addressed: To what extent can Gothic - despite its limited corpus - be used as data material? Further, which of the ascertained syntactic characteristics does Gothic have in common with other old Indo-European languages? Which of these features can be characterized as typically Germanic? It is shown that - despite a certain Greek influence - the Gothic Bible is indeed a rich source of data which can with some certainty be regarded as typically Gothic...read more

Product Description: This volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view. Its ten contributions present newly collected data from different parts of the continent seen through diverse theoretical perspectives...read more

Product Description: In den letzten Jahren hat sich die generative Grammatik in Form des Prinzipien-Parameter-Modells verstärkt auch mit den diachronen Aspekten der Syntax einzelner Sprachen befaßt. Das neu erwachte Interesse an der Diachronie beruht zum Teil darauf, daß das P&P-Modell relativ starke Vorhersagen darüber macht, wie und in welchem Umfang syntaktischer Wandel überhaupt möglich ist...read more