LINGUIST List 10.1155

Mon Aug 2 1999

Qs: Descriptive Grammars, druthers, Verbs/Serbian

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  • Sofia AHSAN, descriptive grammars
  • Alex Monaghan CA, druthers
  • Jovan & Jelena Filipovic, verb aspect in Serbian

    Message 1: descriptive grammars

     Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:44:48 +0100
    From: Sofia AHSAN <SAHwhalleyrange.manchester.sch.uk>
    Subject: descriptive grammars


    Dear linguists,

    I wonder if anyone could provide me with some bibliographical information concerning German:

    I'm looking for descriptive grammars of German(written in English or French) that I could use in typological research (not only synchronic, but if possible also about diachrony and dialects). I am currently aware of the following:

    Eisenberg, Peter (1994): German. In: Koenig, Ekkehard / van der Auwera, Johan (eds.): The Germanic Languages. London / New York. Curme, George O. (1922): A Grammar of the German Language. New York. Russ, Charles, V.J. (ed.)(1989): The Dialects of Modern German. A Linguistic Survey. Stanford. Feuillet, Jack (1993): Grammaire structurale de l'Allemand. Bern.

    I'd very much appreciate your help. Thank you in advance

    Sofia Ahsan

    Please reply to me directly since I am not a subscriber to this list:

    sahwhalleyrange.manchester.sch.uk

    Message 2: druthers

     Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 14:55:51 GMT
    From: Alex Monaghan CA <alexcompapp.dcu.ie>
    Subject: druthers


    does anyone have an account of how "i would rather" formed "druthers" in US english? or is there a different derivation? the change from gapped clause to declinable noun seems unusual to say the least.

    comments welcome, alex.

    Message 3: verb aspect in Serbian

     Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 11:34:17 +0200
    From: Jovan & Jelena Filipovic <jfilipovicsezampro.yu>
    Subject: verb aspect in Serbian


    Does anybody know of any more recent research on Serbian verb aspect? Or research dealing with verb aspect in Serbian as a morphophonological category (rather than a semantic or a morphosyntactic category as the traditional grammarians say)? Also, is anybody aware of an extensive list of Serbian verbs by their aspectual features? Thanks in advance, Please answer directly to this e-mail address.

    Jelena Filipovic, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Spanish language and linguistics, College of Philology- Belgrade University

    C\233sar L. D\237ez Plaza, Visiting lecturer, College of Philology, Belgrade University