HABEN oder nicht HABEN: Diachrone Beschreibung und Analyse des isländischen Possessionssystems Das moderne Isländische verwendet, anders als viele andere europäische Sprachen, unterschiedliche morphosyntaktische Konstruktionen für unterschiedliche Arten von possessiven Relationen. Da diese funktionale Differenzierung weitgehend durch die Semantik des „Besitzes“ … Weiterlesen
The syntax of V‑V resultatives in Mandarin Chinese This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V‑V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their generation, their syntactic structure, and their alternations. This book is original and new in the following aspects. … Weiterlesen
Stewards, Soldiers and Court Officials: Three Scandinavian Elements in the Language of Old Russian Law The present volume is dedicated to Scandinavian lexical borrowings in Old Russian, a topic, that has been discussed for almost 300 years, and approaches the … Weiterlesen
From pseudo-relatives to causative constructions: Scandinavian languages as a case study This volume proposes a novel structural analysis for causative constructions, offering a solution for the long-standing mono/bi-clausal dualism. Causatives are claimed to instantiate a ‘complex object’ construction, insofar as … Weiterlesen
Arabic dislocation Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977, inter alia), the phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research. This, however, has not been the case for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and hence … Weiterlesen
Blending, from English to Arabic This book examines the interesting linguistic phenomenon of blending, where new words are formed to enrich the lexicon of a language. Blending in English has been thoroughly investigated to the extent that researchers and scholars … Weiterlesen
The syntax of surprise: expletive negation and the left periphery Negation is a universal syntactic phenomenon only employed in human languages. People use negative sentences in everyday conversations, and they display complex semantic and syntactic properties when doing so. Crucially, … Weiterlesen