Latest documents http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:27:40 +0200 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:27:40 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25036 Selma Meireles; Hardarik Blühdorn article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25036 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:27:40 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23281 U radu se analizira sintaktička funkcija participa u hrvatskome jeziku 15./16. st. jer su se otprilike u to vrijeme u sintaktičkom ustrojstvu (staro)hrvatskoga jezika događale vrlo krupne jezične promjene, koje su posljedica “departicipijalizacije” participa, tj. preobrazbe naslijeđenih participnih oblika u glagolske priloge. Kristina Štrkalj Despot article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23281 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:32:15 +0000 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23249 U radu se prikazuje i analizira leksikografski status brojevnih riječi u Rječniku hrvatskoga kajkavskoga književnog jezika. Prilaže se popis brojevnih riječi obrađenih u rječniku, utvrđuje se u kojoj su mjeri u rječničkome članku zastupljeni elementi gramatičkoga opisa i navode li se oni dosljedno. Analiziraju se elementi definicije brojevnih riječi i njezina koherentnost. Ivana Franić article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23249 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:43:17 +0000 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23256 U radu se daje pregled problema povezanih s normativnim statusom čestičnih/vezničkih skupina da li, je li i čestice/veznika li. Pokazuje se da postoji nekoliko pogrješaka povezanih s tumačenjem normativnog statusa i raspodjele tih skupina i te čestice te se provjerava normativno pravilo prema kojemu skupinu da li treba u standardnome jeziku zamijeniti česticom li (o tome se posve pogrješno često piše kao o zamjeni da li s je li, a skupina je li, s iznimkom skupine je li da koja ima funkciju dopunskoga pitanja, u standardnome jeziku ne postoji kao čestična/veznička skupina jer je njezin prvi član uvijek 3. lice prezenta glagola biti). Određuje se normativni status skupine je li, tj. pokazuje se da je ona u hrvatskome jeziku ili zastarjela ili da pripada razgovornomu stilu. Također se provjeravaju pravila u skladu s kojima se normativni status skupine da li u izravnome pitanju razlikuje od njezina statusa u neizravnome pitanju i prema kojima se skupina da li i u standardnome jeziku pojavljuje pri izricanju potvrdnosti te u alternativnim pitanjima. Donose se uvjeti zamjenjivosti skupina da li česticom/veznikom li, tj. izdvajaju se sintaktički konteksti u kojima ta zamjena nije potrebna ili nije moguća. Lana Hudeček; Luka Vukojević article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/23256 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:15:36 +0000 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14879 Rawang [...] is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by people who live in the far north of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), particularly along the Mae Hka ('Nmai Hka) and Maeli Hka (Mali Hka) river valleys (see map on back page); population unknown, although Ethnologue gives 100,000. In the past they had been called ‘Nung’, or (mistakenly) ‘Hkanung’, and are considered to be a sub-group of the Kachin by the Myanmar government. Until government policies put a stop to the clearing of new land in 1994, the Rawang speakers still practiced slash and burn farming on the mountainsides (they still do a bit, but only on already claimed land), in conjunction with planting paddy rice near the river. They are closely related to people on the other side of the Chinese border in Yunnan classified as either Dulong or Nu(ng) (see LaPolla 2001, 2003 on the Dulong language). In this paper, I will be discussing the word-class-changing constructions found in Rawang, using data of the Mvtwang (Mvt River) dialect of Rawang, which is considered the most central of those dialects in Myanmar and so has become something of a standard for writing and inter-group communication. Randy J. LaPolla article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14879 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:23:21 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14878 Rawang (Rvwàng) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the far north of Myanmar (Burma), and is closely related to the Dulong language spoken in China. Rawang manifests a kind of hierarchical person marking on the predicate which marks first person primarily (in several different ways - suffixes, change of final consonant, vowel length - and up to five times within one verb complex), and second person indirectly with a sort of marking similar to the inverse marking found in some North American languages: it appears when there is a first person participant, but that referent is not the actor, and when the second person is a participant. This system is quite different from those that reflect semantic role (e.g. Qiang) or grammatical relations (e.g. English). Randy J. LaPolla article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14878 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:18:50 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14833 This paper discusses the various uses of the copula in the Rawang language, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Myanmar, plus other types of copula like-constructions, with data taken mainly from naturally occurring texts. Randy J. LaPolla article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14833 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:24:31 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14828 This paper discusses the copula and existential verb constructions in Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Sichuan, China. Randy J. LaPolla; Chenglong Huang article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14828 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:01:18 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14195 Eine Einführung in eine Reihe von linguistischen Phänomenen von Phonetik bis Pragmatik, einige theoretische Ansätze zur Beschreibung/für diese Phänomene, mit einem Blick auf Phänomene und Ansätze, die für kognitive Linguisten und Neurologen interessant sind. Der Begriff "Schnittstelle" ist in der Linguistik ein technischer Terminus, der beschreibt, wie verschiedene Typen von Phänomenen miteinander in einer Beziehung stehen, aber der Terminus soll auch beschreiben, wie linguistische und außerlinguistische Phänomene ineinandergreifen. Manfred Krifka other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14195 Tue, 04 May 2010 12:14:42 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14126 Ein zentrales Thema in den Arbeiten Klaus Welkes ist die Analyse formal bestimmter Relationen, die semantisch interpretierbar sind (vgl. etwa WELKE 1988, 1992, 1994, 2001, 22005). Wichtige Fragestellungen sind hier insbesondere: Wie ist die Hierarchie logisch-pragmatischer Rollen, wie die syntaktischer Funktionen? Wie hängen die beiden Bereiche zusammen? Wie können wir dies mit Hilfe von Argumentstrukturen erfassen? Der vorliegende Beitrag wird sich mit dem hierfür zentralen Aspekt der Verknüpfung syntaktischer und semantischer Relationen aus einer evolutionären Perspektive befassen. In Übereinstimmung mit WELKE (22005) gehe ich davon aus, „daß es neben einer Syntax formaler Strukturen auch eine Syntax semantischer Strukturen gibt“ (WELKE 22005, 4) und untersuche vor diesem Hintergrund, wie eine Entstehung dieser beiden Domänen und die Verknüpfung der betreffenden Strukturen im Rahmen der Evolution menschlicher Sprache aussehen könnte. Heike Wiese article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14126 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:50:53 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12626 This paper deals with the syntactic annotation of corpora that contain both ‘canonical’ and ‘non-canonical’ sentences. Hagen Hirschmann; Seanna Doolittle; Anke Lüdeling article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12626 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:10:12 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11871 Caroline Féry; Gisbert Fanselow; Manfred Krifka article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11871 Tue, 05 May 2009 13:53:05 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11870 The guidelines for semantics comprise a number of layers related to quantificational structures as well as some crucial semantic properties of NPs with respect to information structure: definiteness, countability, and animacy. Cornelia Endriss; Stefan Hinterwimmer; Stavros Skopeteas article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11870 Tue, 05 May 2009 13:52:40 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11869 The guidelines for morphological annotation contain the layers that are necessary for understanding the structure of the words in the object language: morphological segmentation, glossing, and annotation of part-of-speech. Joanna Blaszczak; Stefanie Dipper; Gisbert Fanselow; Shinishiro Ishihara; Svetlana Petrova; Stavros Skopeteas; Thomas Weskott; Malte Zimmermann article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11869 Tue, 05 May 2009 13:48:34 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11868 The annotation guidelines introduced in this chapter present an attempt to create a unique infrastructure for the encoding of data from very different languages. The ultimate target of these annotations is to allow for data retrieval for the study of information structure, and since information structure interacts with all levels of grammar, the present guidelines cover all levels of grammar too. After introducing the guidelines, the current chapter also presents an evaluation by means of measurements of the inter-annotator agreement. Stefanie Dipper; Michael Götze; Stavros Skopeteas article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11868 Tue, 05 May 2009 13:37:29 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11867 The guidelines for Information Structure include instructions for the annotation of Information Status (or ‘givenness’), Topic, and Focus, building upon a basic syntactic annotation of nominal phrases and sentences. A procedure for the annotation of these features is proposed. Michael Götze; Thomas Weskott; Cornelia Endriss; Ines Fiedler; Stefan Hinterwimmer; Svetlana Petrova; Anne Schwarz; Stavros Skopeteas; Ruben Stoel article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11867 Tue, 05 May 2009 13:32:12 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11805 Für das Präpositionalattribut des Deutschen existieren bei einer Übertragung ins Ungarische vielfältige Übersetzungsvarianten. Die den deutschen Präpositionalphrasen entsprechenden Postpositionalphrasen und kasussuffigierten Nominalphrasen gehen in Attributsfunktion dem Kopf der Nominalphrase in der Regel voran und sind dann in partizipiale oder adjektivische Strukturen einzubetten. Die der deutschen Konstruktion entsprechende Postponierung dieser Attribute gewinnt allerdings in der modernen Standardsprache immer mehr an Raum. Gleichfalls lässt sich in einigen Textsorten eine Ausbreitung des sog. postpositionalen Adjektivs konstatieren. Lassen sich beide Phänomene gegebenenfalls als Symptome eines Nominalstils im Ungarischen werten? Susan Schlotthauer workingpaper http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11805 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:02:44 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9951 The renowned Grimm Dictionary (1854-1961) makes the statement that the German copula sein (to be) is “the most general and colourless of all verbal concepts” (der allgemeinste und farbloseste aller verbalbegriffe). A more concise summary of the linguistic issues surrounding the copula is hardly possible. These two properties (and the latent tension between them!) make copulas a particularly interesting and vexing subject of linguistic research. Copulas appear to be almost colourless, i.e., devoid of any concrete meaning, thus leading to the question of why such expressions exist at all, not only in German but in the majority of the world’s languages. And at the same time copulas presumably provide the best window into the core of verbal concepts thereby telling us what it actually means to be a verb – at least in a language like German or English. While there is a rather rich body of research on copulas in philosophical and formal semantics including several in-depth studies on the copular systems of individual languages, copulas have received comparably little attention from a typological perspective. The monograph of Regina Pustet sets out to fill this gap. She presents an extensive cross-linguistic study of copula usage based on a sample of 154 languages drawn from the language families of the world. The analysis is embedded in the theoretical framework of functional typology. The study aims at uncovering universal principles that govern the distribution of copulas in nominal, adjectival, and verbal predications. Its major objective is the development of a “semantically-based model of copula distribution” (p.62) by means of which the presence vs. absence of copulas can be motivated through the inherent meaning of the lexical items they potentially combine with. Drawing mainly on the work by Givón (1979, 1984) and Croft (1991, 2001), who provide a functional foundation of the traditional parts of speech, Pustet identifies four semantic parameters which, if taken together, are claimed to support substantial generalisations on copula distribution – within a given language as well as crosslinguistically. These parameters are DYNAMICITY, TRANSIENCE, TRANSITIVITY, and DEPENDENCY. Pustet goes on to argue – and this is in fact the driving force behind the overall monograph – that the distributional behaviour of copulas, in turn, yields a useful methodology for developing a general approach to lexical categorization. Thus, in the long run Pustet aims at contributing to a better understanding of the traditional parts of speech, noun, adjective, and verb by defining them in terms of “semantic feature bundles, which can be arranged in [a] coherent semantic similarity space” (p.193). Claudia Maienborn preprint http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9951 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:31:46 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9615 The goal of this paper is to re-examine the status of the condition in (1) proposed in Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou (2001; henceforth A&A 2001), in view of recent developments in syntactic theory. (1) The subject-in-situ generalization (SSG) By Spell-Out, vP can contain only one argument with a structural Case feature. We argue that (1) is a more general condition than previously recognized, and that the domain of its application is parametrized. More specifically, based on a comparison between Indo-European (IE) and Khoisan languages, we argue that (1) supports an interpretation of the EPP as a general principle, and not as a property of T. Viewed this way, the SSG is a condition that forces dislocation of arguments as a consequence of a constraint on Case checking. Artemis Alexiadou; Elena Anagnostopoulou preprint http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9615 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:00:56 +0200