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Klappentext Periphrasis is the phenomenon of a multiword syntactic sequence having the function of a single morphological form. It therefore straddles morphology and syntax. This volume presents new data and gives examples from diverse languages. Zusammenfassung Periphrasis straddles the border between two major linguistic components, morphology and syntax. It describes a situation where a grammatical meaning, such as a tense, which could be expected to be expressed morphologically within a word, is instead expressed by a syntactic phrase. Inclusion of syntactic phrases in morphological paradigms creates analytical and theoretical problems that have yet to be resolved by linguists, who have been hampered by the rather narrow range of data available for consideration and by a lack of adequate theoretical devices. This book addresses the challenge by broadening the range of phenomena under discussion and presenting new theoretical approaches to the problem of periphrasis.Part I takes four key languages from diverse families - Nakh-Daghestanian, Gunwinyguan (Australian), Uralic and Indo-European - as examples of languages in which periphrasis poses particular problems for current linguistic theories. Part II views periphrasis in different contexts, determining its place within the morphological and syntactic systems of the languages it is found in, its relations to other linguistic phenomena, and the typological variation represented by periphrastic constructions. Treating periphrasis as a morphological and syntactic phenomenon at the same time and applying the criteria worked out within the Canonical Typology approach allows linguists to view periphrasis as a family of phenomena within a typological space of syntactic constructions used to fulfil grammatical functions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. The Typological Space: Periphrasis in Four Key Languages 1: Marina Chumakina: Periphrasis in Archi 2: Nicholas Evans: Instability in Stability: Therapeutic and Elaborative Periphrasis in the Dalabon Pronominal Prefix Paradigm 3: Irina Nikolaeva: Periphrasis in Tundra Nenets 4: Gregory Stump: Periphrasis in the Sanskrit verb system II. Syntactic and Morphological Perspectives 5: Olivier Bonami and Gert Webelhuth: The Phrase-Structural Diversity of Periphrasis: A Lexicalist Account 6: Greville G. Corbett: Periphrasis and Possible Lexemes 7: Gergana Popova and Andrew Spencer: Relatedness in Periphrasis: A Paradigm-based Perspective 8: Andrew Spencer: Sentence Negation and Periphrasis ...
