Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a Historical and Typological Perspective

Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
List of the contributors......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Trends in the diachronic development of Semitic verbal morphology......Page 28
Demonstratives in the languages of Europe......Page 52
Internal structure of verbal stems in the Germanic languages......Page 76
Relativization strategies in the languages of Europe......Page 90
The spread and decline of indefinite man -constructions in European languages: An areal perspective......Page 122
Mediating culture through language: Contact-induced phenomena in the early translations of the Gospels......Page 160
Inalienability and emphatic pronominal possession in European and Mediterranean languages: Morphosyntactic strategies andhistorical changes......Page 186
Conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions in Europe: Some areal considerations......Page 210
Complex Nominal Determiners: A contrastive study......Page 242
Relativisation strategies in insular Celtic languages: History and contacts with English......Page 272
Canonical and non-canonical marking of core arguments in European languages: A typological approach......Page 316
Re: duplication: Iconic vs counter-iconic principles (and their areal correlates)......Page 344
Index of Languages......Page 378
Index of Names......Page 382
Index of Subjects......Page 388
The series Studies in Language Companion Series......Page 392