1. Contributors 2. Introduction and overview (by Thielemann, Nadine) 3. Part I. Multimodal, gramm... more 1. Contributors 2. Introduction and overview (by Thielemann, Nadine) 3. Part I. Multimodal, grammatical and paralinguistic resources in talk-in-interaction 4. Talking out of turn: (Co)-constructing Russian conversation (by Grenoble, Lenore A.) 5. Reanimating responsibility: The wez-V2 (take-V2) double imperative in Polish interaction (by Zinken, Jorg) 6. Eye behavior in Russian spoken interaction and its correlation with affirmation and negation (by Grishina, Elena) 7. Hesitation markers in transitions within (story)telling sequences of Russian television shows (by Laitinen, Hanna) 8. Part II. Statistical analysis of Russian talk-in-interaction 9. Russian everyday utterances: The top lists and some statistics (by Sherstinova, Tatjana) 10. Speech rate as reflection of speaker's social characteristics (by Stepanova, Svetlana) 11. Part III. Displaying and negotiating epistemic and evidential status and evaluation in interaction 12. How evaluation is transferred in oral discourse in Russian (by Richter, Nicole) 13. 'This is how I see it': No prefacing in Polish (by Weidner, Matylda) 14. How can I lie if I am telling the truth?: The unbearable lightness of being of strong and weak modals, modal adverbs and modal particles in discourse between epistemic modality and evidentiality (by Kosta, Peter) 15. Part IV. Facework and contextualization in interaction - From (im)politeness to humor 16. Irony in the face(s) of politeness: Strategic use of verbal irony in Czech political TV debates (by Mazara, Jekaterina) 17. Parliamentary communication: The case of the Russian Gosduma (by Weiss, Daniel) 18. Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness: A descriptive analysis (by Furman, Michael) 19. Humor as staging an utterance (by Thielemann, Nadine) 20. Part V. Language alternation in face-to-face interaction of bilingual families 21. Bilingual language use in the family environment: Evidence from a telephone conversation between members of a community of speakers of German descent (by Ries, Veronika) 22. Russian language maintenance through bedtime story reading?: Linguistic strategies and language negotiation in Russian-French speaking families in Switzerland (by Pitton, Liliane Meyer) 23. Index
Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich zum Ziel, zu einem besseren Verstandnis pragmatisch relevanter... more Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich zum Ziel, zu einem besseren Verstandnis pragmatisch relevanter Kategorien beizutragen und dabei die traditionellen Begriffe der klassischen Sprechakttheorie und der sprachphilosophischen Forschung wie Konversationsimplikatur und indirekter Sprechakt erneut auf den Prufstein der gegenwartigen konversationsanalytischen Forschung zu stellen (vgl. auch Kostan 1998, 2005, 2009, und Kosta, Thielemann 2009). Im Zusammenhang damit wird auch der Bereich der epistemischen und evidentiellen Modalitat diskutiert und am Beispiel des Russischen erlautert.
"The paper offers a description of Slavic word order systems from the vi... more "The paper offers a description of Slavic word order systems from the viewpoint of formal typology basing on such notions as syntactic type, parametric settings, basic and derived order, linearization constraints, constituency, movement, spell-out, cliticity, clitic clusters, syntax-prosody interface, grammaticalization, Relativized Minimality, Radical Minimalism. The general aim is to classify Slavic word order systems with clitics on the basis of syntactic constraints without sticking to hypotheses about language-specific properties of prosodically deficient elements and to provide a viable typological classification, which can be verified by data from other world’s languages. After having introduced the notion clitic cluster vs. clitic template, we are concentrating on 2.1 Cliticization into DP/NP and on 2.2. Clusters and the Template Principle. We also give insigths into how 2.3. Clause-level Clitics and Clusterization in Slavic can be analyzed and how 2.4. Syntactic Clitics and Prosodic clitics can be treated and we give an overview about 2.5. Areal Slavic Types of a Clitic Template and about 2.6. 2P Clitics and Non-clusterizing Clitics. In 2.7. we adopt the hypothesis of Comp/XP as a universal clitic basis, since it predicts the placement of Slavic clausal 2P elements in the best possible way and is typologically more reliable than the alternative hypothesis of 2P as a primarily phonetic phenomenon (cf. Halpern (1996) for a different approach). In secttion 2.8. entitled Tobler-Musaffia’s Law, 2P-clitics and VA-clitics Revisited, we try to put forward a claim that the description of word order systems of clausal clitics should base on syntactic constraints and be maximally independent from conjectures on restrictions imposed by allegedly purely phonetic or lexical properties of clitics. The further sections of this article include the following: 3. Barrier Theory and Derived Word Orders with Clitics 3.1. Blind and Selective Barriers 3.2. Communicative and Grammaticalized Barriers 3.3. Barriers and Verb Movement 3.4. Barriers and Clitic Movement 3.5. Multiple Barriers and Blocking of the Barrier Effect 4. Slavic Word Order Systems 4.1. Standard W-systems 4.2. W+-systems 4.3. W*-systems 4.4. C-systems 4.5. The Unity and Diversity of Slavic Word Order Systems 5. Slavic VA Clitics as Strong 2P clitics: the VA vs 2P Distinction Revisited 6. Further Problems and Perspectives: Possessor Raising 7. Conclusions"
... Helmut Faßke Das Vetschauer Wendisch - verschwundene Merkmale Doris Teichmann Vom orthodoxen ... more ... Helmut Faßke Das Vetschauer Wendisch - verschwundene Merkmale Doris Teichmann Vom orthodoxen Lutheraner zum evangelischen Christen des Ausgleichs L'udovit Petrasko Die Wahlheimat Bocatius im Schatten des Standesaufstände Peter Kosta Zur lateinischen ...
Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verz... more Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar. Universitätsverlag Potsdam 2008 ...
The following paper is concerned with the syntax of Slavic clitics, drawing relevant generalizati... more The following paper is concerned with the syntax of Slavic clitics, drawing relevant generalizations across the array of West and South Slavic languages. The study concentrates on two contemporarily discussed approaches of generative grammar, the Minimalist Program (MP) and the ...
1. Contributors 2. Introduction and overview (by Thielemann, Nadine) 3. Part I. Multimodal, gramm... more 1. Contributors 2. Introduction and overview (by Thielemann, Nadine) 3. Part I. Multimodal, grammatical and paralinguistic resources in talk-in-interaction 4. Talking out of turn: (Co)-constructing Russian conversation (by Grenoble, Lenore A.) 5. Reanimating responsibility: The wez-V2 (take-V2) double imperative in Polish interaction (by Zinken, Jorg) 6. Eye behavior in Russian spoken interaction and its correlation with affirmation and negation (by Grishina, Elena) 7. Hesitation markers in transitions within (story)telling sequences of Russian television shows (by Laitinen, Hanna) 8. Part II. Statistical analysis of Russian talk-in-interaction 9. Russian everyday utterances: The top lists and some statistics (by Sherstinova, Tatjana) 10. Speech rate as reflection of speaker's social characteristics (by Stepanova, Svetlana) 11. Part III. Displaying and negotiating epistemic and evidential status and evaluation in interaction 12. How evaluation is transferred in oral discourse in Russian (by Richter, Nicole) 13. 'This is how I see it': No prefacing in Polish (by Weidner, Matylda) 14. How can I lie if I am telling the truth?: The unbearable lightness of being of strong and weak modals, modal adverbs and modal particles in discourse between epistemic modality and evidentiality (by Kosta, Peter) 15. Part IV. Facework and contextualization in interaction - From (im)politeness to humor 16. Irony in the face(s) of politeness: Strategic use of verbal irony in Czech political TV debates (by Mazara, Jekaterina) 17. Parliamentary communication: The case of the Russian Gosduma (by Weiss, Daniel) 18. Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness: A descriptive analysis (by Furman, Michael) 19. Humor as staging an utterance (by Thielemann, Nadine) 20. Part V. Language alternation in face-to-face interaction of bilingual families 21. Bilingual language use in the family environment: Evidence from a telephone conversation between members of a community of speakers of German descent (by Ries, Veronika) 22. Russian language maintenance through bedtime story reading?: Linguistic strategies and language negotiation in Russian-French speaking families in Switzerland (by Pitton, Liliane Meyer) 23. Index
Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich zum Ziel, zu einem besseren Verstandnis pragmatisch relevanter... more Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich zum Ziel, zu einem besseren Verstandnis pragmatisch relevanter Kategorien beizutragen und dabei die traditionellen Begriffe der klassischen Sprechakttheorie und der sprachphilosophischen Forschung wie Konversationsimplikatur und indirekter Sprechakt erneut auf den Prufstein der gegenwartigen konversationsanalytischen Forschung zu stellen (vgl. auch Kostan 1998, 2005, 2009, und Kosta, Thielemann 2009). Im Zusammenhang damit wird auch der Bereich der epistemischen und evidentiellen Modalitat diskutiert und am Beispiel des Russischen erlautert.
"The paper offers a description of Slavic word order systems from the vi... more "The paper offers a description of Slavic word order systems from the viewpoint of formal typology basing on such notions as syntactic type, parametric settings, basic and derived order, linearization constraints, constituency, movement, spell-out, cliticity, clitic clusters, syntax-prosody interface, grammaticalization, Relativized Minimality, Radical Minimalism. The general aim is to classify Slavic word order systems with clitics on the basis of syntactic constraints without sticking to hypotheses about language-specific properties of prosodically deficient elements and to provide a viable typological classification, which can be verified by data from other world’s languages. After having introduced the notion clitic cluster vs. clitic template, we are concentrating on 2.1 Cliticization into DP/NP and on 2.2. Clusters and the Template Principle. We also give insigths into how 2.3. Clause-level Clitics and Clusterization in Slavic can be analyzed and how 2.4. Syntactic Clitics and Prosodic clitics can be treated and we give an overview about 2.5. Areal Slavic Types of a Clitic Template and about 2.6. 2P Clitics and Non-clusterizing Clitics. In 2.7. we adopt the hypothesis of Comp/XP as a universal clitic basis, since it predicts the placement of Slavic clausal 2P elements in the best possible way and is typologically more reliable than the alternative hypothesis of 2P as a primarily phonetic phenomenon (cf. Halpern (1996) for a different approach). In secttion 2.8. entitled Tobler-Musaffia’s Law, 2P-clitics and VA-clitics Revisited, we try to put forward a claim that the description of word order systems of clausal clitics should base on syntactic constraints and be maximally independent from conjectures on restrictions imposed by allegedly purely phonetic or lexical properties of clitics. The further sections of this article include the following: 3. Barrier Theory and Derived Word Orders with Clitics 3.1. Blind and Selective Barriers 3.2. Communicative and Grammaticalized Barriers 3.3. Barriers and Verb Movement 3.4. Barriers and Clitic Movement 3.5. Multiple Barriers and Blocking of the Barrier Effect 4. Slavic Word Order Systems 4.1. Standard W-systems 4.2. W+-systems 4.3. W*-systems 4.4. C-systems 4.5. The Unity and Diversity of Slavic Word Order Systems 5. Slavic VA Clitics as Strong 2P clitics: the VA vs 2P Distinction Revisited 6. Further Problems and Perspectives: Possessor Raising 7. Conclusions"
... Helmut Faßke Das Vetschauer Wendisch - verschwundene Merkmale Doris Teichmann Vom orthodoxen ... more ... Helmut Faßke Das Vetschauer Wendisch - verschwundene Merkmale Doris Teichmann Vom orthodoxen Lutheraner zum evangelischen Christen des Ausgleichs L'udovit Petrasko Die Wahlheimat Bocatius im Schatten des Standesaufstände Peter Kosta Zur lateinischen ...
Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verz... more Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar. Universitätsverlag Potsdam 2008 ...
The following paper is concerned with the syntax of Slavic clitics, drawing relevant generalizati... more The following paper is concerned with the syntax of Slavic clitics, drawing relevant generalizations across the array of West and South Slavic languages. The study concentrates on two contemporarily discussed approaches of generative grammar, the Minimalist Program (MP) and the ...
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Peter Kosta
The Syntax of Meaning
and the Meaning of Syntax
This book provides a ... more About the book Peter Kosta The Syntax of Meaning and the Meaning of Syntax
This book provides a summary of Radical Minimalism, putting forth a neurocognitively implementable theory of grammar as I-language. Radical Minimalism tries to give a ‘fully explicit’ description of syntactic structures mapped into cognitive frames of thought. It focuses on the division of labor between Narrow Syntax and Meaningful Units of the sentence and also on the role of Mental Lexicon (understood as a selection of Roots and Labels), the Labeling Mechanism, and the participation of the Senso-Motoric and Conceptual-Intentional Interfaces within a Crash-proof Grammar of Human Language. The data are taken from the languages of different genetic origins and types. The book is based on the idea that language and thought are closely connected and must be studied within the physical laws of the Anti-Entropy and Dynamical Frustration theory. Peter Kosta’s new book touches on an exceptional range of subjects in theoretical syntax and the philosophy of grammar, bearing ample proof of his lifelong engagement with these vital disciplines within the humanities of the 20th/21st centuries. His acute awareness of important insights and discussions in current day minimalism is evident from every page, informing his treatment of a wide diversity of problems in the morphosyntax of Slavic languages and beyond. (Jan-Wouter Zwart, University of Groningen) This book provides a breath of fresh air in linguistic theorising by combining empirically based syntactic innovations with original discussions of long-standing semantic puzzles and a revised architecture of the Faculty of Language. Foundational notions in generative theory are thoroughly revised in the light of detailed comparative analyses. This remarkable work represents the culmination of years of research on what meaning is, how it is structured, and to what extent syntax encodes meaning. (Diego Gabriel Krivochen, University of Verona)
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Peter Kosta
The Syntax of Meaning
and the Meaning of Syntax
This book provides a summary of Radical Minimalism, putting forth a neurocognitively implementable theory of
grammar as I-language. Radical Minimalism tries to give a ‘fully explicit’ description of syntactic structures mapped
into cognitive frames of thought. It focuses on the division of labor between Narrow Syntax and Meaningful Units of
the sentence and also on the role of Mental Lexicon (understood as a selection of Roots and Labels), the Labeling
Mechanism, and the participation of the Senso-Motoric and Conceptual-Intentional Interfaces within a Crash-proof
Grammar of Human Language. The data are taken from the languages of different genetic origins and types. The book
is based on the idea that language and thought are closely connected and must be studied within the physical laws of
the Anti-Entropy and Dynamical Frustration theory.
Peter Kosta’s new book touches on an exceptional range of subjects in theoretical syntax and the philosophy of
grammar, bearing ample proof of his lifelong engagement with these vital disciplines within the humanities of the
20th/21st centuries. His acute awareness of important insights and discussions in current day minimalism is evident
from every page, informing his treatment of a wide diversity of problems in the morphosyntax of Slavic languages and
beyond.
(Jan-Wouter Zwart, University of Groningen)
This book provides a breath of fresh air in linguistic theorising by combining empirically based syntactic innovations
with original discussions of long-standing semantic puzzles and a revised architecture of the Faculty of Language.
Foundational notions in generative theory are thoroughly revised in the light of detailed comparative analyses. This
remarkable work represents the culmination of years of research on what meaning is, how it is structured, and to what
extent syntax encodes meaning.
(Diego Gabriel Krivochen, University of Verona)