Temporal Nouns Research Articles

Zur Geschichte der Nominalgruppe im alteren Deutsch: Festschrift fur Paul Valentin: Akten des Pariser Kolloquiums Marz 1999 (review)

Reviewed by: Zur Geschichte der Nominalgruppe im älteren Deutsch: Festschrift für Paul Valentin: Akten des Pariser Kolloquiums März 1999 ed. by Yvon Desportes John M. Jeep Zur Geschichte der Nominalgruppe im älteren Deutsch: Festschrift für Paul Valentin: Akten des Pariser Kolloquiums März 1999. Ed. by Yvon Desportes. (Germanistische Bibliothek 5.) Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2000. Pp. 290. ISBN 3-8253-1054-X. 42.00 Eur-D. To celebrate the retirement of Paul Valentin after 30 years as Professor of Germanic Philology at the Sorbonne (as Jean Fourquet’s successor), Yvon Desportes organized a conference in Paris in March 1999 under the title ‘On the history of the nominal phrase in German with special consideration of determinants’ (translation JMJ). The eleven papers—all in German—presented at that time now appear as a Festschrift under a slightly different title, On the history of the noun phrase in Older German. Examples cited range from Germanic to modern German, but the majority of the papers focus on the earlier stages of High German. Despite the change in the wording of the title, determinants still play a major role in the essays. Rosemarie Lühr analyzes the word order of quantifiers in Old High German and beyond, discussing partitivity in some detail and with numerous examples. Jean Haudry outlines the prehistory of the article in the Germanic languages, postulating Indo-European ‘article-like pronouns’. Elvira Glaser looks at the article as preserved in Old High German glosses, often overlooked as sources of syntactic data. Glaser includes insightful remarks on the varying degrees of reliability of glosses and glossaries. Yvon Desportes attempts to apply to Middle High German Paul Valentin’s model for describing the modern German article. He describes the evolution of binary categories (+/− definite, +/− countable) and their relationship to number, leading to a new (modern German) operative category: indefiniteness. Erika Oubouzar traces the development of ein (both an article, ‘a’, and a number, ‘one’) within Old High German, again underscoring the varying semantic and morphological aspects involved. Appropriately, then, ein plays a significant role in a volume focusing on a topic that intersects morphology, parts of speech, syntax, and semantics. Some of the studies deal with syntax somewhat more narrowly. John Ole Askedal’s study investigates sentence length and noun phrase frequency in selected writings of three philosophers: Immanuel Kant, Hermann Cohen, and Joachim Kopper. Askedal’s cautious conclusions suggest a tendency of formal written German to evolve in an unusual direction, one that is different from less formal and from dialectal German. Jörg Riecke looks at noun phrases in medical/medicinal texts diachronically (Old High German through sixteenth century), identifying both genre-specific and production/reception factors such as orality. In a similar fashion, Odile Schneider-Mizony relates the evolution of extended attribute phrases (late fifteenth century and beyond) to the expansion of an audience of readers. Hans Ulrich Schmidt continues his work on the Old High German suffix -lîh, a once very highly productive morpheme, and its relationship to adverbial phrases. Maxi Krause investigates the interior structure of temporal noun phrases in the accusative and genitive and includes a detailed table of the results (82–95). The longest contribution is Franz Simmler’s analysis of the adjective morphology of pre- and post-nuclear phrases (sixteenth through eighteenth century); his comments on the necessity of using extensive databases are poignant. Furthermore, Simmler concludes that periodization attempts must consider internal linguistic factors as well as external historical considerations. Throughout the Festschrift, comparisons to other Germanic languages are made, making the lack of an index particularly unfortunate. Closing remarks from the conference by Paul Valentin, addressed to ‘Old High Germans’, and a list of Valentin’s publications round out the volume. Once again, Desportes has edited and contributed to a volume on Old High German of lasting value; see also Syntax und Semantik, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 1992; Semantik der syntaktischen Beziehungen, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 1997. As a note, the cover illustration, ‘Rechts von N.’ (‘to the right of N.’) is borrowed from...

Noms de temps et opérations de partition : le problème de Il est arrivé au mois de juin de la même année vs *Il est arrivé au mois de juin de l’année

This paper deals with the linguistic explicitation of the relations of partition existing among the temporal referents. The referents of the names année/mois/ jour... are indeed connected by relations of order and inclusion (semaine can be described as a part of mois, just like volant is a part of voiture). Therefore, those names should satisfy the test-frame N de N. However, if it is possible to find the structure le volant de la voiture, it is odd to say les semaines du mois or en juin de l'année. The aim of this article is to put in evidence the lexical features of the temporal nouns and some constraints governing the linguistic translation of the whole-and-part relationship between the temporal referents.

L'expression de la Duree

Several types of duration measurement verbs (Vmtd) can be isolated in french as the result of the description of different types of constructions that can occur with temporal nouns (Ntps) and duration nouns (Ndur). A series of syntactic and semantic properties can be gathered concerning these constructions, leading to the constitution of four main categories, for which durer, prendre, passer, mettre are the best representative verbs. In this study, we try to show the difference that can be made between this specific verbal complementation and durative adverbial complementation in general.

Phonology and Morphology of Upper Chehalis: I

Previous articleNext article No AccessPhonology and Morphology of Upper Chehalis: IM. Dale KinkadeM. Dale Kinkade Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by International Journal of American Linguistics Volume 29, Number 3Jul., 1963 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/464734 Views: 17Total views on this site Citations: 3Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Daniel Recasens Acoustic characteristics and placement within vowel space of full schwa in the world’s languages: A survey, Journal of the International Phonetic Association 36 (Mar 2021): 1–36.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100320000122 Grażyna J. Rowicka Pronominal Markers in Quinault (Salish) Rowicka, International Journal of American Linguistics 72, no.44 (Jul 2015): 451–476.https://doi.org/10.1086/513057Suzanne Urbanczyk Reduplicative form and the Root-Affix Asymmetry*, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 24, no.11 (Feb 2006): 179–240.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-005-4373-x