Cambridge University Press по журналам "American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures"
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1990-07-01)Anatoly Liberman's recent article in this journal (“The phonetic organization of Early Germanic” 2,1:1990) contains a number of potentially important claims about the nature of early Germanic accentuation. (1) His major ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1999--01)In this paper we examine the topicalization paradigm for ten different verbal constructions in German. We argue that a uniform explanation for the observed behaviors follows from the interpretation of the relevant expressions ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1994-01-01)Den Reichtum der Sprache findet man nicht, wenn man fragt: was hat das Wort x früher bedeutet? oder: woher kommt das Wort x?, sondern wenn man fragt: was sagt man alles für… ? (1)
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1994-07-01)Two incompatible theories of OHG i−umlaut are briefly described—the one proposed by Twaddell in 1938, the other by Voyles in 1991. Five arguments recently adduced by Penzl in defense of the Twaddellian theory are discussed. ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1993-07-01)This article proposes a configurationality parameter based solely on the issue of criteriality for fulfillment of the fundamental function of syntax, which is the establishment of linkage between lexemes and their grammatical ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1996--01)Reduction of case morphology is not unusual in the history of languages, especially Germanic. What sets Pennsylvania German apart from an otherwise routine process is the fact that two distinct communities are reflecting ...
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Contact phenomena in language maintenance and shift: The Pennsylvania German infinitive construction(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1990-07-01)The formation of the Pennsylvania German dependent infinitive construction varies across Pennsylvania German speech communities. The use of zu to mark infinitives which do not complement modals is receding in all communities ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1996--01)In Early New High German the word for ‘greyhound’ was wind, but in Modern German it is Windhund. This kind of change from an original simplex to a compound is called “pleonastic compounding,” a term used as little as the ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1992-01-01)This article addresses a problem at the interface between morpho-syntax and semantics: How to treat “double-accusative” constructions in German. The solution is given in relational terms, which suits the framework of ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1999--01)This paper investigates the influence of Dutch, Swedish, and English on the syntax of Pidgin Delaware, a contact language used in the Middle Atlantic region in the seventeenth century. Arguments are presented against ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1997--01)In this short paper, the author takes a closer look at Einar Haugen's (1906–1994) writings in as far as they touch upon the historiography of linguistics. After a sketch of his scholarly background and the role he played ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2000--01)One of the enduring cruxes in Afrikaans historical linguistics has been the origin of the so-called “double” or more properly “brace” negation, specifically with respect to the negative particle nie in sentence-final ...
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