During the past three decades Norbert Boretzky (born 1935 in Breslau) has contributed excellent scholarly work in an impressive variety of subject matters in various linguistic subdisciplines. Among his many scientific achievements, his groundbreaki…
Der vorliegende Band bietet vielf ltige Herangehensweisen zu den Sprachen der indigenen V lker Amerikas - zu den gro en Sprachen (Guaran , Zapotekisch, Otom , klassisches Aztekisch) ebenso wie zu den kleinen (Moset n, Cab car). Die Einfl sse der ame…
This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on language contact which represent new developments in t…
Sprache und Wahrnehmung sind so grundlegend und selbstverstandlich, dass sie haufig automatisch und unreflektiert verwendet werden. Dadurch entstehen viele Probleme. Die in diesem Buch vorgestellten methodischen Anwendungen helfen dabei, diese Probl…
Literally hundreds of languages world-wide have experienced direct or indirect Hispanisation during the heyday of the Spanish colonial empire. The number of languages which continue to borrow from Spanish on a daily basis is considerable especially…
The extant generalizations about the grammar of space rely heavily on the analyses of declarative sentences. There is a need to check whether these generalizations also hold in the domain of interrogation. To this end this book analyzes data from so…
Irregularity is a philological concept which is not adequately defined. The present volume aims to improve the understanding of irregularity within the domain of morphology, relating to inflectional, derivation, and compounding. Studies aim to disco…
This in-depth areal-typological study analyzes the grammatical means which are employed in the languages of Europe to express the comparative of inequality/superiority. The extant theories and hypotheses about the morphosyntactic structure and the c…
Die Vergleichende Kolonialtoponomastik ist ein junger Zweig der Koloniallinguistik und befasst sich mit s mtlichen Fragen, die sich auf Ortsnamen in kolonialen Kontexten beziehen. Koloniale Ortsnamen, sogenannte Kolonialtoponyme, bilden einen global…
Methodologische Fragestellungen sind von groesster Wichtigkeit auch in geisteswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen wie der Linguistik. Dessenungeachtet fristet die Methodologiedebatte oftmals ein Mauerblumchendasein. Mit diesem Band wollen die Herausgeber…
Studia Typologica is the companion series of the journal Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung/Language Typology and Universals (STUF). Studia Typologica publishes scholarly studies of high quality dedicated to promising new topics in the realm…
Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) provides the platform for a new research program which is currently taking shape in the realm of linguistics, viz. "Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics". This…
In contrast to many other levels of language, there is as yet no comprehensive areal-linguistic description of the segmental phonological properties of the languages of Europe.To complement the synchronic picture of the languages of Europe, it is ti…
On the basis of a world-wide convenience sample of 116 languages, the distribution of zero-marking of spatial relations over the languages of the world is shown to largely escape any genetically, areally and/or typologically based constraints. The m…
Dieser Sammelband widmet sich verschiedenen Aspekten eines bislang vernachl ssigten Gegenstandes. In der relativ kurzen deutschen Kolonialzeit (1884-1918/20) in Afrika, China und Ozeanien sind buchst blich Hunderte von Texten entstanden, die von den…
Total reduplication is a widely common phenomenon in human languages. Nevertheless, it has not gained sufficient attention among linguists. This monograph demonstrates that the comparative study of total reduplication challenges the traditional noti…
Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) provides the platform for a new research program which is currently taking shape in the realm of linguistics, viz. Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics. This n…
Die junge linguistische Teildisziplin Kreolistik stellt sich selber in den Mittelpunkt der sprachwissenschaftlichen Theorienbildung. Die vorliegende Untersuchung versteht sich als Versuch einer Uberprufung der Gultigkeit im Bereich der historischen…
This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the…
