Looking at Language
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Looking at Language

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Looking at Language

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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 In addition to journal and book articles, many of them published by Mouton, this book features new and unpublished texts by the author.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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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2018
ISBN
9783110547306
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Index

  • aboutness 1, 2
  • Abraham, Werner 1, 2, 3, 4
  • accessible argument 1, 2
  • accessible pair 1, 2
  • addition 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41
  • Adelung, Johann Christoph 1, 2
  • adverbials 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43
  • Aktionsart 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
  • ALIUD 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • alternative semantics 1, 2, 3, 4
  • anaphoric 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
  • anaphoric relatum 1
  • apple tree 1
  • argument 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53
  • argument structure 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  • argument-time 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
  • argument-time structure 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  • Aristotle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
  • Aristotle’s entailment 1, 2, 3, 4
  • aspect 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
  • assertion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44
  • assertion time 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  • association with focus 1, 2
  • atelic 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
  • Augustine, St. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • background 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
  • baker 1, 2
  • basic time structure 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  • basic variety 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • Becker, A. 1, 2
  • BECOME 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  • Bickerton, D. 1, 2
  • Bierwisch, Manfred 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
  • binding principles 1
  • Bondarko, Alexandr V. 1, 2, 3
  • boundary 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
  • Breu, Walter 1
  • BĂźhler, K. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  • Bybee, Joan L. 1, 2
  • calendaric relata 1
  • Carroll, M. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  • case marking 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
  • CAUSE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • change 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62
  • Chao, Yuan R. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • Chomsky, Noam 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
  • Chu, Chauncey C. 1, 2, 3, 4
  • cleft 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  • clitic 1, 2, 3
  • closeness fallacy 1
  • cognitive maps 1, 2, 3
  • communication faculty 1, 2, 3
  • completed 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
  • complex verbal tasks 1, 2, 3
  • Comrie, B. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
  • conative use 1
  • constituent negation 1
  • construction faculty 1, 2, 3, 4
  • context-dependency 1
  • context-free grammar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • context-sensitive grammars 1
  • control asymmetry 1, 2, 3, 4
  • controller 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
  • control word 1
  • copying faculty 1, 2, 3
  • cyclic time 1
  • Dahl, Östen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Bibliography
  7. Introduction
  8. Concepts of time
  9. A time-relational analysis of Russian aspect
  10. An analysis of the German Perfekt
  11. Aspect and assertion in mandarin Chinese
  12. On times and arguments
  13. On the “Imperfective paradox” and related problems
  14. Local deixis in route directions
  15. Some notorious pitfalls in the analysis of spatial expressions
  16. Time and again
  17. On the scope of negation
  18. About the German particles schon and noch
  19. The information structure of French
  20. Quaestio and L-perspectivation
  21. Finiteness, universal grammar and the language faculty
  22. The basic variety (or: couldn’t natural languages be much simpler?)
  23. The contribution of second language acquisition research
  24. Why case marking?
  25. The grammar of varieties
  26. Index