Research Catalog

Title

Textual parameters in older languages / edited by Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reneen, Lene Schøsler.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Herring, Susan C.
• Reenen, Pieter Th. van.
• Schøsler, Lene, 1946-
• International Conference on Historical Linguistics (11th : 1993 : University of California, Los Angeles)

Description

x, 448 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 195

Uniform Title

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 195.

Subject

• Discourse analysis
• Historical linguistics
• historical linguistics
• pragmatics
• Historische Sprachwissenschaft
• Kontrastive Linguistik
• Textlinguistik
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Teksten
• Parameters (taalkunde)

Note

• Includes revised versions of papers originally presented at the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, Aug. 1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

On Textual Parameters and Older Languages / Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schosler -- Methodologies and Ideologies in Historical Linguistics: On Working with Older Languages / Suzanne Fleischman -- The Pragmatic Functions of the Old French Particles AINZ, APRES, DONC, LORS, OR, PUIS, and SI / Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schosler -- Discourse Organization and Anaphora in Latin / A. Machtelt Bolkenstein -- The Importance of Discourse Types in Grammaticalization: The Case of Anon / Laurel J. Brinton -- Genre, Discourse, and Syntax in Early Indo-European, with Emphasis on Sanskrit / Hans Heinrich Hock -- Poeticality and Word Order in Old Tamil / Susan C. Herring -- Suppressed Assertion and the Functions of the Final-Attributive in Prose and Poetry of Heian Japanese / Shoichi Iwasaki -- Robert Keayne's Notebooks: A Verbatim Record of Spoken English in Early Boston? / Merja Kyto -- Textual Authenticity: Evidence from Medieval Greek / Brian D. Joseph -- Parameters Underlying Punctuation in Older Russian Texts / Jadranka Gvozdanovic -- The Middle English Verb-Second Constraint: A Case Study in Language Contact and Language Change / Anthony Kroch, Ann Taylor and Donald Ringe -- A la Recherche du Word Order Not Quite Perdu / Frans Gregersen and Inge Lise Pedersen.

ISBN

• 1556199732
• 9781556199738
• 9027237026
• 9789027237026

LCCN

00021367

OCLC

• ocm43520863
• 43520863
• SCSB-1207526

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library