Published by De Gruyter (A)

Volume 60 Issue 3

Issue of STUF - Language Typology and Universals

Contents
Journal Overview

September 25, 2009

Preface

Thomas Stolz

Page range: 185-185

September 25, 2009

The fate of ‘redundant’ verbal forms – Double perfect constructions in the languages of Europe

Andreas Ammann

Page range: 186-204

Abstract

German and other languages of Europe have supercomposed tenses which are the result of a twofold application of the strategy that forms perfects. Based on their low frequency in the written registers, these constructions are considered marginal. In spoken German double perfects often compete with the pluperfect. But I argue that their use in literary German is motivated, so that double perfect constructions are indeed members of the tense inventory. Elsewhere in Europe, we find similar con-structions associated with rather specific (and similar) meanings, both where synthetic past tenses are on the decline and where they are preserved.

September 25, 2009

Typologically motivated over- vs. underspecification of gender in Germanic languages

Elke Ronneberger-Sibold

Page range: 205-218

Abstract

This paper investigates different means of expressing natural gender in personal terms, namely derivational suffixes, different inflectional classes, and the inflection of pronouns, adjectives, and determiners for grammatical gender in the history of Ger-man, English, and Swedish. These three languages were chosen as representatives of different routes of typological development among the Germanic languages. The major typological division, which can only in part be described in the classical terms of syntheticity vs. analyticity, separates English and Swedish on the one hand from German on the other. The differences in the expression of natural gender are related to these typological differences.

September 25, 2009

Word-internal agreement

Thomas Stolz

Page range: 219-251

Abstract

This paper is meant to demonstrate that agreement phenomena are by no means re-stricted to morpho-syntactic relations which connect separate words of an utterance to one another. It is shown that similar patterns can be observed also word-internally i.e. in a morphologically complex word, there are at least two slots in which fillers occur that encode the same or partially identical sets of grammatical categories. The paper adduces evidence from a variety of languages of different parts of the world whose morphological systems allow for word-internal agreement. Since the phenomenon is attested more often than expected, it deserves an in-depth treatment for which this contribution is paving the way.

September 25, 2009

Philip Baldi & Pietro U. Dini (eds.), Studies in Baltic and Indo-European linguistics (in honor of William R. Schmalstieg), (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science 254), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004

Björn Wiemer

Page range: 252-259

September 25, 2009

Walter Breu (ed.), L'influsso dell'italiano sulla grammatica delle lingue minoritarie. Problemi di morfologia e sintassi. Atti del Convegno Internazionale – Costanza, 8-11 ottobre 2003, (Studi e Testi di Albanistica 17), Rende: Università della Calabria, 2005

Thomas Stolz

Page range: 259-260

September 25, 2009

Bernhard Hurch [with editorial assistance of Veronica Mattes] (ed.), Studies on reduplication, (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 28), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005

Thomas Stolz

Page range: 261-262

September 25, 2009

Manfred Moser [unter Mitwirkung von Sahron Meyer und Joe Felice-Pace], Malti-Ġermaniż – Dizzjunarju kbir/Deutsch-Maltesisch – Großes Wörterbuch, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2005

Thomas Stolz

Page range: 263-264

September 25, 2009

Klaas-Hinrich Ehlers, Strukturalismus in der deutschen Sprachwissenschaft. Die Rezeption der Prager Schule zwischen 1926 und 1945, (Studia Linguistica Germanica 77), Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2005

Thomas Stolz

Page range: 264-266

September 25, 2009

Sharon Inkelas & Cheryl Zoll, Reduplication. Doubling in morphology, (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 106), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Thomas Stolz

Page range: 266-268

September 25, 2009

Hans-Georg Müller, Reduplikationen im Türkischen. Morphonologische Untersuchungen, (Turkologica 56), Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2004

Thomas Stolz

Page range: 268-270

About this journal

STUF is a forum for scholarly articles in the realm of linguistic typology and universals research. The journal covers original empirical and/or theoretical studies of the structural diversity and/or of the invariants of human language(s). Equally welcome are contributors to submit papers with a leaning towards areal typology and/or diachronic typology.