Form and function in language research : papers in honour of Christian Lehmann

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Introduction / Johannes Helmbrecht [and others]

A. Onomasiological perspective: from function to form

A.1. Functional typologies. The continuum of pragmaticity: a sketch / Hansjakob Seiler

Weighing semantic distinctions in person forms / Dik Bakker and Anna Siewierska

Spatial reciprocity: between grammar and lexis / Ekkehard König and Claire Moyse-Faurie

A chapter in marginal possession: on being six(ty) in Europe (and beyond) / Christel Stolz and Thomas Stolz

A.2. Constraints on the encoding of concepts. Thoughts on (im)perfective imperatives / Johan van der Auwera, Andrej Malchukov, and Ewa Schalley

Animacy and argument hierarchy in conflict: constraints on object-topicalization in Korean / Yong-Min Shin and Elisabeth Verhoeven

A.3. Limits of the exponence of functions: zero. Zero and nothing in Jarawara / R.M.W. Dixon

Clause linkage in a language without coordination: the adjoined clause in Iatmul / Gerd Jendraschek

B. Semasiological perspective: from form to function

B.1. Establishing categories and relations. Once more on linguistic categories / Paolo Ramat

Questions surrounding the basic notions of the word, lexie, morpheme, and lexeme / Christian Touratier

Linguistic typology and language theory: the various faces of syntax / Lunella Mereu

Linking without grammatical relations in Yucatec: alignment, extraction, and control / Jürgen Bohnemeyer

B.2. Formal typologies. Areal typology of tone-consonant interactions and implosives in Kwa, Kru, and Southern-Mande / Firmin Ahoua

The internal structure of adpositional phrases / Silvia Luraghi

On the form of complex predicates: toward demystifying serial verbs / Masayoshi Shibatani

Conjunctive coordination in Amharic: some typological approaches / Dieter Metzing and Saba Amsalu Teserra

Linguistic type and complexity: some remarks / Pierluigi Cuzzolin

B.3. Discovering function in the identity of form. Constituent questions and argument-focus constructions: some data from the North-Caucasian languages / Nina Sumbatova

"A lot of grammar with a good portion of lexicon": towards a typology of partitive and pseudo-partitive nominal constructions / Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm