Syntax, semantics, and the lexicon
Papers by and in honor of Ilse Zimmermann
1st Edition
Published on 20. May 2025
Book
Hardback
488 pages
978-3-98554-120-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book is dedicated to Ilse Zimmermann, who was a pioneer of Generative Grammar in Germany and made important contributions to the analysis of German and Slavic languages. It contains original articles by Zimmermann as well as newly written papers inspired by her work. Zimmermann's original articles cover a wide range of topics over a long period of research - the earliest dating from 1983 - and they make it clear that issues that are highly topical today have long been the subject of linguistic research. The newly written papers are closely related to Zimmermann's topics ranging from DP structure, verbal inflection and reciprocity to the modification of causative verbs, all from a Slavic perspective. They are rounded off by a contribution highlighting the leading role played by the Strukturelle Grammatik research group, of which Zimmermann was a member, in the development of linguistics in Germany.
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Series
Language
English
German
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Wissenschaft
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1097 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-98554-120-1 (9783985541201)
DOI
10.5281/zenodo.14093374
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Persons
Editor
Lukasz Jedrzejowski is Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation at the University of Agder. He has worked on synchronic and diachronic morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages. His particular research interests include adverbial clauses, subordinate wh-clauses, habituality, and processes of language change.
Uwe Junghanns is Professor of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Göttingen. He has worked on lexical and compositional semantics, information structuring, non-finite clauses, periphrastic constructions, subject realization, ditransitives, predicatives, clitics, reflexive marking, decausatives, and impersonals. He has been (co-)editor of a number of conference volumes as well as special issues of journals. Uwe Junghanns is an Ordinary Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, co-founder of the "Formal Description of Slavic Linguistics" conference series, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics.
Kerstin Schwabe was Ilse Zimmermann's first doctoral student. She completed her doctorate in 1987 at the Central Institute for Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences on the specifics of situational ellipses. The specificity of such ellipses, for example Schnell einen Krankenwagen (lit. 'quickly an ambulance'), lies precisely in the interaction of sound-meaning mapping, one of Ilse Zimmermann's favourite topics.
Carla Umbach is a Senior Researcher at the University of Cologne. Her field of research is semantics, with a cognitive science background. She has recently been working on equative comparison, kind formation by similarity, and depictive manner complements. In German, the adverbs so and wie play a prominent role for these phenomena, creating a close link to Ilse Zimmermann's work in this area. Carla Umbach teaches semantic classes at the University of Cologne.