The VI Simpósio Mundial de Estudos da Língua Portuguesa (VI SIMELP) will take place in Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Santarém (Portugal) from the 24th to 28th of October 2017. The theme of the conference is “Teoria…
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Call for Papers: VI Simpósio Mundial de Estudos da Língua Portuguesa, 24-28 October 2017
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(Non-)universality of word-classes and words: The mid-20th century shift
Martin Haspelmath Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig While looking at a range of views by grammarians on word-class distinctions (noun, verb, adjective etc.) and word division in two recent papers (Haspelmath 2011; 2012a), I was struck by what…
Tagged with: 20th century, linguistics, typology, universal grammar, word classes
Posted in 20th century, History, Linguistics, Typology, Uncategorized
Posted in 20th century, History, Linguistics, Typology, Uncategorized
Exclamatives: a grammatical category?
Els Elffers University of Amsterdam 1. Introduction In most Western European grammars, sentences such as Hurrah!, How very curious!, or Vienna is so dull! are categorized as exclamatory sentences or exclamatives. Next to declaratives, interrogatives and imperatives, exclamatives are usually…
Tagged with: Den Hertog, exclamatives, Gabelentz, Géza Révész, Georg von der Gabelentz, Hermann Paul, Révész
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, History, Linguistics, Syntax, Uncategorized
Posted in 19th century, 20th century, History, Linguistics, Syntax, Uncategorized
