Word, sentence, and discourse

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Ε. Μ. Uhlenbeck: a personal appreciation IX
4. Contents XV
5. Section 1 General linguistics
6. The catalytic function of markedness 3
7. The sign gravitates to the word 15
8. The language of thought revisited 27
9. Foreign- and second-language learning and teaching: Will the twain ever meet? 43
10. Answers to questions put to an FSP theorist by Professor Ε. M. Uhlenbeck 55
11. Some puzzles that arise from the assumption that to learn a language is to construct a grammar 69
12. The ordering of valency slots from a communicative point of view 83
13. On the obvious ability of people to speak 93
14. Should we believe in UG? 103
15. Epistemology and linguistics: Anatomy of an approach 115
16. Why it is so important to care about language in early stages of education 161
17. Against the establishment: Sidelines on Henry Sweet 167
18. On divergent perspectives and controversial issues in studies of language and mind 179
19. Is language a virus? Reflections on the use of biological metaphors in the study of language 191
20. Morphology and meaning: From Bopp to Bob, before and after 211
21. On complementarity 231
22. Word, sentence, and discourse 243
23. The morpheme in Bloomfield's Language 251
24. La linguistique entre psychologie et sociologie 265
25. Section 2 Javanese and Indonesian
26. A royal birthday in nineteenth century Java 281
27. Between brackets: On "vocabulary building" in Batavia ca. 1930 297
28. The verbal auxiliary padha in contemporary Javanese 317
29. Communicative salience in Old Javanese 337
30. A note on relative markers in Javanese 349
31. Adversative-passive verbs in standard Javanese 357
32. An Old Javanese poem on chronogram words 369
33. Adaptation of loan-words ending in -is/-ik in Indonesian 393
34. Section 3 Pacific and Amerindian languages
35. The name of the sweet potato: A case of pre-conquest contact between South America and the Pacific 403
36. Reduplication in Southeast Asian languages: Differences in word structures 413
37. Switch reference in Haruai: Grammar and discourse 421
38. The morphological status of partial reduplication: Evidence from Lushootseed and Lillooetvan 433
39. On the Japanese particle ο 449
40. Proto-Austro-Tai *pl, pr: Eggs Benedict or "Benedict's Egg"? 473
41. Language endangerment and death in the central and southwestern Pacific, with notes on the western 479
42. Section 4 Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic languages
43. "Creatures great and small": Some cross-linguistic parallels 495
44. Vowel reduction, tone and nominal declension in D'irayta 503
45. Grammaticalization and typological change: The clitic cline in Inner Asia Minor Greek 521
46. Zum Genitivattribut im Deutschen 549
47. Vocative case and pronoun in Ancient Greek and Latin 559
48. La construction de ἄρχεσθαι 'commencer' avec l'infinitif aoriste dans les Septante: Un solécisme dans le grec judaïque d'Alexandrie 575
49. The dialect of Volendam—fifty years after van Ginneken: Preliminary data 603
50. Cases of cross-over between finite verb forms and nouns in Armenian 629