Der Band enthält eine Reihe von aktuellen Studien zur historischen Linguistik der slavischen Sprachen. Im Zentrum stehen dabei die historische Onomastik, textphilologische Fragen sowie aktuelle Arbeiten zu digitalen historischen Korpora. Behandelt werden sowohl Themen zum Russischen, Tschechischen, Altkirchenslavischen und Polnischen als auch zu ausgewählten Turksprachen.
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.
This book offers the first comprehensive survey of modals and modal constructions in European languages, resulting from a collaborative effort among scholars from Europe and the United States, initiated by a workshop in Valencia. It aims to describe and compare the properties of modals across various languages and language families from both areal and genetic perspectives, while also examining modality in some languages just outside Europe. Comprising fourteen chapters focused on individual languages or families, each written by experts, alongside introductory and concluding chapters by the editors, the book provides detailed descriptions of modals and insights into their general nature and status. It presents a theoretical framework for understanding how modals and modal constructions are grammaticalized, based on Christian Lehmann's language-independent parameters, rather than language-specific criteria like the NICE criteria for English. These parameters are also assessed for their relevance to grammaticalization theory. This collection surpasses most existing works in the field, offering a fresh perspective on grammaticalization and language contact. It is valuable for scholars interested in modality, language contact, areal linguistics, grammaticalization theory, and typology.
Die Arbeit liefert in bedeutendem Umfang wirkliche, auch aktuelle Erkenntnisse im Bereich der Funktionen russischer Verbal- und Nominalgruppen. Zugleich bringt sie durch die psychologisch orientierten empirischen Untersuchungsverfahren der einzelsprachlichen, besonders der slavistischen Linguistik perspektivenreiche methodische Impulse.