作者: Regine Eckardt

Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? The present volume ties toget …

This book explores the semantic and pragmatic mechanisms underlying grammaticalization. Regine Eckardt argues that language change frequently involves a structural reorganization at the phonological, …

The grammar of negative polarity items is one of the challenges for linguistic theory. NPIs cross-cut all traditional categories in grammar and semantics, yet their distribution is by no means arbitr …

Meanings of words are constantly changing, and the forces driving these changes are varied and diverse. Linguistic analyses are usually concerned with language-internal processes, while investigation …

‘Adverbs, Events, and Other Things’ treats issues in the semantics of manner adverbs. Part I takes up the Davidsonian claim that manner adverbs are predicates of events. The book investigates the sub …

Diese Einführung in die Pragmatik wurde mit dem Ziel konzipiert, neben den klassischen Themen speziell in aktuelle Theorien einzuführen, die für die Beschreibung des Deutschen relevant sind. Mehrere …

Diese Einführung in die Pragmatik wurde mit dem Ziel konzipiert, neben den klassischen Themen speziell in aktuelle Theorien einzuführen, die für die Beschreibung des Deutschen relevant sind. Mehrere …