Books in the Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics series

Provides an account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German and English, and centred on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation contour, a semantic interpretation for two different pitch accents - focus and topic - is developed.

This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written.

Non-standard varieties of English all over the world share a striking number of grammatical features which are hard to explain because of the widely differing sociolinguistic and historical backgrounds of these varieties. Contributors to this book discuss two major factors behind the shared features: vernacular universals and contact-induced change.

Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics. In this book, Declerck offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the conjunction "when".

This book investigates the use of constructions such as 'make an accusation against' or 'give one's approval of' which can be seen as 'stretched' versions of simple verbs such as 'accuse' or 'approve of'.

This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written.

This work offers a descriptive and contact-linguistic account of the grammar of Irish English, also known as 'Hiberno-English'. It examines Hiberno_English dialects past and present and their distinctive grammatical features

Offers a comprehensive account of how the expression of reciprocity in English has developed and how it is organized in language. Combining insights from different strands of research with original corpus-based work, this book is of interest to theoretically and descriptively oriented linguists alike.

Written from within the well-defined theoretical frameword of Generalized Quantifiers, the three main areas considered in this study are: collocations, polarity items, and multiple negations. It takes into account not only semantic and syntactic considerations, but also pragmatic ones.

This volume provides an empirical study of the field of non-standard negation across Great Britain. Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that can be found in everyday spoken language.

Offers a comprehensive account of the history and extent of Celtic influences in English. This book covers the earliest medieval contacts and their linguistic effects, as well as the reflexes of later, early modern, and modern contacts.

This book argues that language systems determine language use to a greater extent than is generally assumed. The author demonstrates how typological characteristics of a language determine the most general aspects of our stylistic preferences.

This study presents a semantic framework for analysing all aspectual constructions in terms of the event state distinction, and describes the grammatical expression of aspectual meaning in terms of a theory of grammatical constructions.

Discusses the role of two major factors shaping the grammars of different varieties of English (and of other languages) all over the world: so-called vernacular universals and contact-induced change. This book focuses on putative universal vernacular features.

Deals with "dislocation" - the removal of phrases from their canonical positions in a sentence to its left or right edge. This book reveals some of the empirical richness of dislocation and some key puzzles related to its syntactic, semantic, and discourse analysis.

Investigates the use of the pronouns he and she for inanimate objects (tree, house, bucket, and more.) across different varieties of English. This work offers an illuminating generalization in terms of the well known hierarchy of individuation, which provides a systematic link between pronominal usage in standard English and its varieties.