Looking at Language

Wolfgang Klein

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2018

Looking at Language

Wolfgang Klein

Volume 317 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110549119

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About this book

Winner of the W. von Humboldt Award 2018

The volume presents an essential selection collected from the essays of Wolfgang Klein. In addition to journal and book articles, many of them published by Mouton, this book features new and unpublished texts by the author. It focuses, among other topics, on information structure, the expression of grammatical categories and the structure of learner varieties.

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Wolfgang Klein, MPI, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XVI
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Concepts of time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	4
A time-relational analysis of Russian aspect Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
An analysis of the German Perfekt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
Aspect and assertion in mandarin Chinese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
On times and arguments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
On the “Imperfective paradox” and related problems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Local deixis in route directions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Some notorious pitfalls in the analysis of spatial expressions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Time and again Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
On the scope of negation1 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
About the German particles schon and noch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
The information structure of French Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
Quaestio and L-perspectivation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354
Finiteness, universal grammar and the language faculty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
The basic variety (or: couldn’t natural languages be much simpler?) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
Why case marking? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	466
The grammar of varieties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars Interested in General Linguistics, Grammar and Language Acquisition
Pages
- Front matter: 16
- Main content: 512
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Information Structure; Grammatical Categories; Learner Varieties

eBook

Published: March 19, 2018
ISBN: 9783110549119

Hardcover

Published: March 19, 2018
ISBN: 9783110547238

Paperback

Published: December 2, 2019
ISBN: 9783110686340