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Parts-of-speech systems and dependent clauses: A typological study
This paper investigates the degree of parallelism between the distribution of parts-of-speech classes in a language, and the distribution of dependent clause types in that language...
Keywords: Lexicon, syntax, typology, parts-of-speech systems, dependent clauses, subordination
08/2006 | Folia Linguistica, Walter de GruyterKomma & Co: Zwiegespräch zwischen Grammatik und Performanz
Three voices in this dialogue reconstruct the most common views on the main function of punctuation...
Keywords: writing, punctuation, comma typology, syntax, performance, intonation
01/2007 | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Walter de GruyterNonsyntactic ordering effects in noun incorporation
Despite the importance of ordering phenomena in typology and the visibility of Baker's analysis (1988, 1996) of noun incorporation in generative syntax, his prediction (1996: 25–30) that in syntactic incorporation the incorporated noun will always precede the verb root has yet to be tested typologically...
Keywords: compound, morpheme order, noun incorporation, syntax, word order
01/2008 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterAdjectives in Thai: Implications for a functionalist typology of word classes
Tai languages are often described as “lacking” a major lexical class “adjectives”; accordingly, they and other area languages are frequently cited as evidence against adjectival universality...
Keywords: adjectives, categorization, derivation, Lexicon, syntax, Tai languages, Thai, word classes
01/2008 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterNegative cycles
Crosslinguistically, negatives change in a cyclical fashion. A particular negative weakens and is renewed by another element...
Keywords: economy, grammaticalization, indefinite, linguistic cycle, negation, negative concord, negative verbs, syntax
01/2008 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterTowards a typology of interrogative verbs
Although various types of interrogative words have been thoroughly studied, such is not the case for interrogative verbs...
Keywords: deictic verb, indefinite verb, interrogative, interrogative pronoun, interrogative verb, serial verb, syntax, word class
01/2008 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterVariation in the grammaticalization of complementizers from verba dicendi in Sinitic languages
This article presents the first study of crosslinguistic variation in grammaticalization processes affecting verba dicendi in Sinitic languages, making use of discourse data in the comparison...
Keywords: Cantonese, complementizer, discourse analysis, grammaticalization, quotative, Sinitic, Southern Min, speech reporting, syntax, verba dicendi
01/2008 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterThe nominalization of adjectives in French: From morphological conversion to categorial mismatch
This paper focuses on non-anaphoric nominalized adjectives denoting abstract concepts, such as
Keywords: syntax, morphology, nominalization, conversion, lexicalization, mismatch, construction grammar
01/2008 | Folia Linguistica, Walter de Gruyter