Who Climbs the Grammar-Tree

[leaves for David Reibel]

Rosemarie Tracy

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783484302815
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111633824
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Selected Roots: History of Linguistic Ideas
• Studies of English Language and Literature versus Romance Philology in Germany in the Nineteenth Century
• E. A. Sonnenschein’s New English Grammar
• Reconstructing Seasons Past: Linguistic Change
• The Verb speak in Shakespeare’s Plays
• Remarks on the Structure of the Verbal Complex in Early 17th Century German
• Language Change in Modern German: Feminism and Systematic Gap Production
• Pronunciation Rules and Improper Sound Change
• Aspects of the Development of the Imperative in Early Modern English
• Informal Sources in the History of English and German
• On the Historical Development of Greek/Grecian
• Aspects of Growth: Language Acquisition and Language Teaching
• Product and Process in the Phonology of Foreign Accent: Towards a Linguistic Model of Second Language Sound Acquisition
• What Can We Learn from the Case of Pitcairnese?
• Variation and Language Acquisition: Psammetichus Revisited
• Language Teaching in Utopia: A Retrospective View
• The Grammar of ‘Missing Arguments’ in Early Child English
• Branches and Twigs: Within and Across Levels of the Grammar
• Phonology and Spelling
• The Phonologies of the English Auxiliary System
• Spelling in Society: Forms and Variants, Uses and Users
• Semantics and Pragmatics
• What about How about? Or: The Non-Synonymy of How about and What about
• Linguistic and Stylistic Considerations Affecting Restrictive Relative Clauses in Spoken and Written English
• On the Tension between Properties and Propositional Functions
• Sein und Raum: Bemerkungen zur lokalistischen Interpretation des Verbs sein in Heideggers Einführung in die Metaphysik
• The English Conditional – Tense, Aspect or Mood?
• Syntax
• Non-Configurational Properties in a Configurational Language: The Case of English
• On Topicalization and Inversion
• From Discourse to Syntax: The Case of Concessive Conditionals
• English Nominal Gerund Phrases as Noun Phrases with Verb Phrase Heads
• The Category of Invariant alles in Wh-Clauses: On Syntactic Quantifiers vs. Quantifying Particles in German
• Revisiting -ing -ing
• New Seasons
• Computational Linguistics: “A Personal View”
• List of Contributors