Forthcoming: Syntax, semantics, and the lexicon: Papers by and in honor of Ilse Zimmermann

Łukasz Jędrzejowski (ed), Uwe Junghanns (ed), Kerstin Schwabe (ed), Carla Umbach (ed)

Synopsis

This book is dedicated to Ilse Zimmermann, who was a pioneer of Generative Grammar in Germany and made important contributions to the analysis of German and Slavic languages. It contains original articles by Zimmermann as well as newly written papers inspired by her work. Zimmermann's original articles cover a wide range of topics over a long period of research – the earliest dating from 1983 – and they make it clear that issues that are highly topical today have long been the subject of linguistic research. The newly written papers are closely related to Zimmermann's topics ranging from DP structure, verbal inflection and reciprocity to the modification of causative verbs, all from a Slavic perspective. They are rounded off by a contribution highlighting the leading role played by the Strukturelle Grammatik research group, of which Zimmermann was a member, in the development of linguistics in Germany.

Dieses Buch ist Ilse Zimmermann gewidmet, die eine Pionierin der Generativen Grammatik in Deutschland war und wichtige Beiträge zur Analyse der deutschen und slawischen Sprachen geleistet hat. Es enthält sowohl Originalartikel von Zimmermann als auch neu verfasste Beiträge, die durch ihre Arbeit inspiriert wurden. Zimmermanns Originalartikel decken ein breites Spektrum von Themen in einem langen Forschungszeitraum ab – der früheste datiert aus dem Jahr 1983 – und sie machen deutlich, dass Fragen, die heute hochaktuell sind, schon lange Gegenstand der linguistischen Forschung sind. Die neu verfassten Kapitel stehen in engem Zusammenhang mit Zimmermanns Themen. Sie reichen von der DP-Struktur über verbale Flexion und Reziprozität bis hin zur Modifikation kausativer Verben, alles aus slawischer Perspektive. Abgerundet werden sie durch einen Beitrag, der die führende Rolle der Forschungsgruppe Strukturelle Grammatik, deren Mitglied Zimmermann war, für die Entwicklung der Linguistik in Deutschland hervorhebt.

Chapters

  • Introduction
    Łukasz Jędrzejowski, Uwe Junghanns, Kerstin Schwabe, Carla Umbach
  • Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Substantivgruppe und Nebensatz
    Ilse Zimmermann
  • Wohin mit den Affixen?
    Ilse Zimmermann
  • The “subject” in noun phrases
    Its syntax and semantics
    Ilse Zimmermann
  • So und wie in satzbasierten Phrasen
    Ilse Zimmermann
  • Die Analysierbarkeit von Pronomen und Proadverbiala im Russischen
    Ilse Zimmermann
  • On the syntax and semantics of kakoj and čto za in Russian
    Ilse Zimmermann
  • Approaching the morphosyntax and semantics of mood
    Ilse Zimmermann
  • Das Korrelat in temporalen Nebensätzen
    Ilse Zimmermann
  • Es ist, wie es ist
    Ilse Zimmermann
  • List of publications by Ilse Zimmermann
    Łukasz Jędrzejowski
  • Strukturelle Grammatik
    Wie es anfing und was daraus wurde
    Manfred Bierwisch
  • Strengthening to reciprocity
    The syntax and semantics of the one+other expressions
    Boban Arsenijević
  • Remarks on the distribution of wh-scope marking
    Gisbert Fanselow
  • The fine-grained structure of the DP in Slavic
    Evidence from the distributed plural hypothesis in Polish and Russian
    Ljudmila Geist, Joanna Błaszczak
  • Adverbial modification with causative verbs
    Uwe Junghanns
  • Slovak verbal inflection in a declarative lexicalist approach to morphology
    Hagen Pitsch

Biographies

Łukasz Jędrzejowski, Universitetet i Agder

Łukasz Jędrzejowski is Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Translation at the University of Agder. He has worked on synchronic and diachronic morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages. His particular research interests include adverbial clauses, subordinate wh-clauses, habituality, and processes of language change.

Uwe Junghanns, University of Göttingen

Uwe Junghanns is Professor of Slavic Linguistics at the University of Göttingen. He has worked on lexical and compositional semantics, information structuring, non-finite clauses, periphrastic constructions, subject realization, ditransitives, predicatives, clitics, reflexive marking, decausatives, and impersonals. He has been (co-)editor of a number of conference volumes as well as special issues of journals. Uwe Junghanns is an Ordinary Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, co-founder of the “Formal Description of Slavic Linguistics” conference series, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics.

Kerstin Schwabe, Leibniz-IDS, Mannheim

Kerstin Schwabe was Ilse Zimmermann's first doctoral student. She completed her doctorate in 1987 at the Central Institute for Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences on the specifics of situational ellipses.  The specificity of such ellipses, for example Schnell einen Krankenwagen (lit. ‘quickly an ambulance’), lies precisely in the interaction of sound-meaning mapping, one of Ilse Zimmermann's favourite topics.

Carla Umbach, Universität zu Köln

Carla Umbach is a Senior Researcher at the University of Cologne. Her field of research is semantics, with a cognitive science background. She has recently been working on equative comparison, kind formation by similarity, and depictive manner complements. In German, the adverbs so and wie play a prominent role for these phenomena, creating a close link to Ilse Zimmermann's work in this area. Carla Umbach teaches semantic classes at the University of Cologne.

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Published

May 28, 2024
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Series

Open Slavic Linguistics

Online ISSN

2627-8332

Print ISSN

2627-8324
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Jędrzejowski, Łukasz, Junghanns, Uwe, Schwabe, Kerstin & Umbach, Carla (eds.). Forthcoming. Syntax, semantics, and the lexicon: Papers by and in honor of Ilse Zimmermann. (Open Slavic Linguistics). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Copyright (c) 2024 Ilse Zimmermann, Gisbert Fanselow, Manfred Bierwisch; Berit Gehrke; Ljudmila Geist, Joanna Błaszczak, Uwe Junghanns, Hagen Pitsch, Boban Arsenijević; Łukasz Jędrzejowski, Uwe Junghanns, Kerstin Schwabe, Carla Umbach

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