Form and Function in Language Research: Papers in Honour of Christian Lehmann (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 210)

Frontmatter
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Contents......Page 8
Glosses......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
A.1 Functional Typologies
......Page 22
The continuum of pragmaticity: a sketch......Page 24
Weighing semantic distinctions in person forms......Page 38
Spatial reciprocity: between grammar and lexis......Page 70
A chapter in marginal possession: on being six(ty) in Europe (and beyond)......Page 82
A.2 Constraints on the Encoding of Concepts
......Page 104
Thoughts on (im)perfective imperatives......Page 106
Animacy and argument hierarchy in conflict: constraints on object-topicalization in Korean......Page 120
A.3 Limits of the Exponence of Functions: Zero......Page 136
Zero and nothing in Jarawara......Page 138
Clause linkage in a language without coordination: the adjoined clause in Iatmul......Page 152
B.1 Establishing Categories and Relations
......Page 162
Once more on linguistic categories......Page 164
Questions surrounding the basic notions of the word, lexie, morpheme, and lexeme......Page 170
Linguistic typology and language theory: the various faces of syntax......Page 180
Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: alignment, extraction, and control......Page 198
B.2 Form Typologies
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Areal typology of tone-consonant interaction and implosives in Kwa, Kru, and Southern-Mande......Page 230
The internal structure of adpositional phrases......Page 244
On the form of complex predicates: toward demystifying serial verbs......Page 268
Conjunctive coordination in Amharic: some typological approaches......Page 296
Linguistic type and complexity: some remarks......Page 314
B.3 Discovering Function in the Identity of Form
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Constituent questions and argument-focus constructions: some data from the North-Caucasian languages......Page 326
“A lot of grammar with a good portion of lexicon”: towards a typology of partitive and pseudopartitive nominal constructions......Page 342
Index
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