Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics
Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1977
X, 502 pages
978-90-272-8149-4 (ISBN)
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This volume of articles was prepared in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The papers are presented in two sections: I. Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, and II. Studies in Historical Linguistics. The volume contains contributions by R.M.W. Dixon, Ralph M. Goodman, Maurice Gross, Einar Haugen, David G. Hays, Archibald A. Hill, Mohammad Ali Jazayery, E.F.K. Koerner, D. Terence Langendoen, Don L.F. Nilsen, Arthur L. Palacas, Sol Saporta, Sanford A. Schane, Jacob Mey, Anders Ahlqvist, Simon C. Dik, Robert T. Harms, Saul Levin, Yakov Malkiel, D. Gary Miller, William G. Moulton, Edgar C. Polomé, Gary D. Prideaux, Luigi Romeo, Maria Tsiapera, Krystyna Wachowicz, Mridula Adenwala Durbin, Paul J. Hopper, Aaron Bar-Adon.
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- STUDIES IN DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS FESTSCHRIFT FOR WINFRED P. LEHMANN
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- FOREWORD
- Table of contents
- WINFRED P. LEHMANN: LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 1938-1976
- ESSAYS
- ARTICLES: APPLIED LINGUISTICS
- REVIEWS
- PART I: STUDIES IN DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS
- DELOCUTIVE VERBS IN DYIRBAL
- APPENDIX
- REFERENCES
- MULTIPLE SD'S FOR UNAMBIGUOUS SENTENCES: CONTINUUMS
- 1. SYNTACTIC ARGUMENTS
- 1a. VERB PLUS PARTICLE AREA
- 1b. VERB PLUS PREPOSITION AREA
- 1c. THE PARTICLE-PREPOSITION CONTINUUM
- 1d. CLEAR CASE VERSUS GENERAL GRAMMAR
- 1e. OTHER GRAMMATICAL AREAS
- 2. SEMANTIC ARGUMENTS
- 2a. VERB PLUS PARTICLE AREA
- 2b. VERB PLUS PREPOSITION AREA
- 2c. A VERBAL AREA
- FINAL REMARKS
- REFERENCES
- REMARKS ON THE SEPARATION BETWEEN SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 'SEXISM' AND THE NORWEGIAN LANGUAGE
- REFERENCES
- MACHINE TRANSLATION AND ABSTRACT TERMINOLOGY
- THE FOURFOLD FACULTY OF LANGUAGE
- SEMANTIC TRANSLATION
- REMARKS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- LITERARY MEANINGS--COMPLEX OR SIMPLE?
- NOTES
- SOME ASPECTS OF LEXICAL SYNONYMY IN CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- THE HUMBOLDTIAN TREND IN LINGUISTICS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- ON THE INADEQUACY OF TYPE-3 AND TYPE-2 GRAMMARS FOR HUMAN LANGUAGES
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- FALSE COGNATES IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH
- SPECIFICNESS IN GENERATIVE GRAMMAR
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Jackendoff's analysis.
- 3. The Predictive Power of the MPR
- 4. The Proposed Remedy for Overprediction in MS
- 5. On solving the overprediction problem.
- 6. Problem of the Underprediction of the MPR.
- 7. Performative solution for the third person data.
- 8. Factive and Scope
- 9. Specificness and reference.
- 10. Conclusion.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- LANGUAGE IN A SEXIST SOCIETY
- RULE BREAKING IN ENGLISH SPELLINGA STUDY OF FINAL E
- NOTES
- LINGUISTICS AS A PRACTICAL SCIENCE
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- PART II: STUDIES IN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
- TYPOLOGICAL NOTES ON IRISH WORD-ORDER
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDUCTIVE GENERALISATIONS IN SEMANTIC CHANGE
- 0 INTRODUCTION
- 1 A SIMPLE EXAMPLE
- 2 SOME BACKGROUND NOTIONS
- 3 VERBS OF MOVEMENT
- 4 THE RELEVANCE OF THE ADDRESSEE IN DEMONSTRATIVE SYSTEMS
- 5 VISIBILITY AS A RELEVANT FEATURE IN DEMONSTRATIVE SYSTEMS
- 6 COMPASS ORIENTATION IN DEMONSTRATIVE SYSTEMS
- 7 DUAL AND TRIAL IN PERSONAL PRONOUN SYSTEMS
- 8 CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- THE URALO-YUKAGHIR FOCUS SYSTEM: A PROBLEM IN REMOTE GENETIC RELATIONSHIP
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 'SOMETHING STOLEN': A SEMITIC PARTICIPLE AND AN INDO-EUROPEAN NEUTER SUBSTANTIVE
- 1. The Root, the Affix, and the Accented Vowel
- 2. The Law of Stolen Goods in Prehistoric Times
- 3. From Participle to Substantive
- 4. Feminine and Neuter Gender
- 5. The Relation of
- Bibliographical References
- WHY AP-ISH BUT WORM-Y?
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- BARTHOLOMAE'S LAW AND AN IE ROOT STRUCTURE CONSTRAINT
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- SECONDARY STRESS IN GERMANIC ALLITERATIVE VERSE
- REFERENCES
- APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF VEDIC RFLIGION
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- LEXICAL RESTRUCTURING VERSUS RULE ADDITION: A CASE STUDY IN DIALECT DIFFERENTIATION
- REFERENCES
- A NOTE ON HIPPOCRATES
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR LEXICAL VARIATION IN CYPRIOT AND MODERN STANDARD GREEK
- REFERENCES
- THE SYNCHRONIC DESCRIPTION AND HISTORICAL CHANGE
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- AN IDENTIFICATION OF A LANGUAGE - A METHODOLOGY
- 0. INTRODUCTION.
- 0.1 The Role Of The Comparative Method.
- 1.0 INDIC LANGUAGES IN TRINIDAD.
- 2.0 METHODOLOGY
- 2.1 Diagnostic Isogloss Model.
- 2.2 The Diagnostic Model And The Trinidad Hindoostani (TH).
- 3.0 THE HOME OF THE EAST INDIANS OF TRINIDAD IN INDIA.
- 4.0 THE ROLE OF MORPHOLOGICAL COMPARISON.
- 4.1 Comparison Of The Dialeots of 'Hindi'.
- 4.2 The Results Of The Morphological Comparison: Tables III-VIII.
- 5.0 THE RELATION BETWEEN TH AND BIHARI.
- 6.0 THE HOME OF TEE INDIAN IMMIGRANTS OF TRINIDAD IN INDIA
- 7.0 CONCLUSION.
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- HILDEBRANDSLIED 35b: DAT IH DIR IT NU BI HULDI GIBU
- REFERENCES
- ON THE NATIVIZATION OF MODERN HEBREW AND THE ROLE OF CHILDREN IN THIS PROCESS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX OF NAMES
