Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas: Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective (Studies in Language Companion Series)

Trends In The Diachronic Development Of Semitic Verbal Morphology / Giorgio Banti -- Demonstratives In The Languages Of Europe / Federica Da Milano -- Internal Structure Of Verbal Stems In The Germanic Languages / Paolo Di Giovine, Sara Flamini And Marianna Pozza -- Relativization Strategies In The Languages Of Europe / Sonia Cristofaro And Anna Giacalone Ramat -- The Spread And Decline Of Indefinite Man-constructions In European Languages : An Areal Perspective / Anna Giacalone Ramat And Andrea Sanso -- Mediating Culture Through Language : Contact-induced Phenomena In The Early Translations Of The Gospels / Silvia Luraghi And Pierluigi Cuzzolin -- Inalienability And Emphatic Pronominal Possession In European And Mediterranean Languages : Morphosyntactic Strategies And Historical Changes / Gianguido Manzelli -- Conjunctive Disjunctive And Adversative Constructions In Europe : Some Areal Considerations / Caterina Mauri -- Complex Nominal Determiners : A Contrastive Study / Ignazio Mauro Mirto And Heike Necker -- Relativisation Strategies In Insular Celtic Languages : History And Contacts With English / Elisa Roma -- Canonical And Non-canonical Marking Of Core Arguments In European Languages : A Typological Approach / Domenica Romagno -- Re: Duplication : Iconic Vs Counter-iconic Principles (and Their Areal Correlates) / Thomas Stolz. Edited By Paolo Ramat, Elisa Roma. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 Table of contents......Page 6 List of the contributors......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 Trends in the diachronic development of Semitic verbal morphology......Page 28 Demonstratives in the languages of Europe......Page 52 Internal structure of verbal stems in the Germanic languages......Page 76 Relativization strategies in the languages of Europe......Page 90 The spread and decline of indefinite man -constructions in European languages: An areal perspective......Page 122 Mediating culture through language: Contact-induced phenomena in the early translations of the Gospels......Page 160 Inalienability and emphatic pronominal possession in European and Mediterranean languages: Morphosyntactic strategies andhistorical changes......Page 186 Conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions in Europe: Some areal considerations......Page 210 Complex Nominal Determiners: A contrastive study......Page 242 Relativisation strategies in insular Celtic languages: History and contacts with English......Page 272 Canonical and non-canonical marking of core arguments in European languages: A typological approach......Page 316 Re: duplication: Iconic vs counter-iconic principles (and their areal correlates)......Page 344 Index of Languages......Page 378 Index of Names......Page 382 Index of Subjects......Page 388 The series Studies in Language Companion Series......Page 392 This volume is a collection of 12 papers which originated from a research project on ‘Europe and the Mediterranean from a linguistic point of view: history and prospects’. The papers deal with specific morphosyntactic aspects of language structure and evolution. The comparative perspective is adopted both from a synchronic (typological) and a diachronic (historical) angle, focusing in particular on possible contact phenomena. Therefore, methodological key words of this book are areal typology and linguistic area . The issues addressed cover such diverse aspects of language structure and change as verb morphology, relative clause formation, Noun Phrase determination, demonstrative systems, possessive markers in Noun Phrases, conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions, non-canonical object marking, impersonal constructions, reduplication and early translations of the Gospels. These topics are discussed particularly in relation to Romance, Germanic, Celtic and Semitic languages, both modern and ancient. This book will interest researchers in typological, historical, functional and general linguistics