Complementizer Semantics in European Languages Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 11 July 2016

Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 07 March 2022

How are evidential functions distinguished by means other than grammatical paradigms, i.e. by function words and other lexical units? And how inventories of such means can be compared across

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 24 July 2017

Research into the “grammar of language death” is often biased toward formal processes (e.g. paradigmatic levelling). In this study the author changes the perspective and shows that the relative

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 08 November 2021

This volume assembles contributions addressing clausal complementation across the entire South Slavic territory. The main focus is on particular aspects of complementation, covering the contemporary standard languages as well as

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 24 March 2022

This volume offers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment available today of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia. While there is a long history

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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• Release Date : 05 March 2018

The book is dedicated to the study of the causes and mechanisms of syntactic change in Slavonic languages, including internally motivated syntactic change, syntactic change under contact conditions (structural convergence,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 21 November 2020

The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus is an introduction to and overview of the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Though the languages of

• Publisher : Language Science Press
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• Release Date : 22 November 2022

This book offers a comparative perspective on the structural and interpretive properties of root-clause complementizers in Ibero-Romance. The driving question the author seeks to answer is where the boundaries between

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
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• Release Date : 19 May 1992

It is widely believed by historians of linguistics that the 19th-century was largely devoted to historical and comparative studies, with the main emphasis on the discovery of soundlaws. Syntax is

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
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• Release Date : 19 May 1998

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or