Aspects of Typology and Universals

The first volume of "Studia typologica" contains the full length documentation og the plenary lectures of the Mainz Summer School on Typology 1998.

Klappentext

The first volume of "Studia typologica" contains the full length documentation og the plenary lectures of the Mainz Summer School on Typology 1998.

Inhalt
Gugliemo Cinque: The status of "mobile" suffixes Bernard Comrie: Typology and the history of language Hubert Haider: Not every why has a whereform: notes on the relation between form and function Lars Johanson: On three dimensions of aspectual terminality Jaklin Kornfilt: In the sytax and morphology of clausal complements and adjuncts in Turkic languages Christian Lehmann: Language documentation: a program Ognazio Putzu/Paolo Ramat: Articles and quantifiers in the Mediterranean languages Anna Siewierska: Order correlations between free and bound possessors: perspectives from diachronic change Thomas Stolz: Comitatives vs. instrumentals vs. agents Walter Bisang: Areality, grammaticilization and language typology: on the explanatory power of functional criteria and the status of Universal Grammar