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Third Person Reference in Late Latin
This study describes third person reference in the fourth century Latin text commonly known as the Itinerarium Egeriae, focusing on what is traditionally labelled demonstratives (hic, iste, ille, is, ipse and idem), bare NPs, and null pronouns.
Reorganising Grammatical Variation
With most studies on grammatical variation concentrating on the synchronic level, a systematic investigation of long-term grammatical variation within the context of language change, i.e. from a predominantly diachronic perspective, has largely remained a desideratum. The present volume fills this research gap by bringing together nine empirically rich bottom-up case studies on morphological and morphosyntactic variation phenomena in standard and dialect varieties of Indo-European languages (Germanic, Romance, Greek). While variation has often been regarded as merely a transitory epiphenomenal symptom of change, the findings of this volume show that variation is a resilient feature of human language and answer the question what makes variation time-stable. Bridging the gap between corpus-based research on language variation and more theory-driven typological and functional approaches, the volume is of special interest for all researchers concerned with interface phenomena seeking to gain a broader understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic variation and change.
The Pilgrimage of Egeria
This new version of the late fourth-century diary of journeys in and around the Holy Land known as the Itinerarium Egeriae provides a more literal translation of the Latin text than earlier English renderings, with the aim of revealing more of the female traveler’s personality. The substantial introduction to the book covers both early pilgrimage as a whole, especially travel by women, and the many liturgical rites of Jerusalem that Egeria describes. Both this and the verse-by-verse commentary alongside the translated text draw on the most recent scholarship, making this essential reading for pilgrims, students, and scholars seeking insight into life and piety during one of Christianity’s most formative periods.
Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom) 2
This second volume on the Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom) contains forty new lexicographical articles as well as an extensive theoretical section which discusses various questions pertaining to the methods, problems and implications of comparative reconstruction in Romance linguistics (phonology, semantics, grammar, geolinguistics and cartography).
Diachronic Slavonic Syntax
The book is dedicated to the study of the causes and mechanisms of syntactic change in Slavonic languages, including internally motivated syntactic change, syntactic change under contact conditions (structural convergence, pattern replication, shift-induced transfer etc.): It also explores metalinguistic factors such as ideologically driven selection and propagation of syntactic structures.
Demonstrative Kennzeichnungen im Altfranzösischen
Die Untersuchung erweitert die Kenntnis der Funktionen proximaler und distaler Demonstrativa am Beispiel des Altfranzösischen. Als Prinzip der Distribution wird neben der referentiellen Verankerung erstmals der ontologische Typ der Referenzobjekte aufgedeckt. Aus der Kombination dieser Kriterien ergeben sich funktionale Profile, die auch auf die Diachronie von cist und cil eine neue Perspektive entwerfen.
Morphosyntax und Pragmatik in Konkurrenz
Im Deutschen gibt es eine ganze Reihe sprachlicher Phänomene, die eine Redundanz dahingehend aufweisen, dass scheinbar gleiche grammatische Funktionen formal mehrfach kodiert werden. Dies ist z. B. beim Definitartikel am (inhärent definiten) Personennamen der Fall ("der Peter", "die Merkel"), der Thema dieses Buches ist. Mittels qualitativer und quantitativer Datenanalyse wird untersucht, in welchen Verwendungskontexten der Artikel bei Personennamen in den historischen und rezenten Varietäten des Deutschen wie häufig auftritt und welche Funktionen er dabei erfüllt. Zentraler Befund ist, dass der onymische Artikel hier varietätenabhängig unterschiedliche sprachliche Funktionen zum Ausd...
Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman (DÉRom) 3
The third volume of the DÉRom contains about forty new lexicographical articles, documenting mainly hereditary Protoromance etyma, but also Gallic borrowings. The theoretical section gathers chapters discussing questions such as the Idioromance infrastructure of the DÉRom, polysemy, synonymy, and the substrates of Protoromance.
Philosophy of Mathematics
A sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of mathematics from one of its leading thinkers Mathematics is a model of precision and objectivity, but it appears distinct from the empirical sciences because it seems to deliver nonexperiential knowledge of a nonphysical reality of numbers, sets, and functions. How can these two aspects of mathematics be reconciled? This concise book provides a systematic, accessible introduction to the field that is trying to answer that question: the philosophy of mathematics. Øystein Linnebo, one of the world's leading scholars on the subject, introduces all of the classical approaches to the field as well as more specialized issues, including mathematical intuition, potential infinity, and the search for new mathematical axioms. Sophisticated but clear and approachable, this is an essential book for all students and teachers of philosophy and of mathematics.
