Latest documents http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:16:59 +0200 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:16:59 +0200 http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14739 Lone Takeuchi’s stimulating book (1999) has given me an opportunity to reconsider my (unpublished) semiotactic analysis of Japanese particles [...]. Frederik H. H. Kortlandt article http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14739 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:16:59 +0200 http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14736 The philosophy of language comes in three varieties. 1. The functionalist’s view: linguistic forms are instruments used to convey meaningful elements. This is the basis of European structuralism. 2. The formalist’s view: linguistic forms are abstract structures which can be filled with meaningful elements. This is the basis of generative grammar. 3. The parasitologist’s view: linguistic forms are vehicles for the reproduction of meaningful elements. This is the view which I advocated twelve years ago in a Festschrift (1985). Frederik H. H. Kortlandt article http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14736 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:06:22 +0200 http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14634 It is argued that the PIE thematic flexion can be compared with the objective conjugation of the Uralic languages. The thematic vowel referred to an object in the absolutive (asigmatic nominative) case. Frederik H. H. Kortlandt article http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14634 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:50:44 +0200 http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14633 In his magnum opus (Syntax and Semantics, Leiden 1978, henceforth: S&S) C.L. Ebeling makes a distinction between temporal gradation (pp 301-308 and 337-339) and temporal limitation (pp 311-315). In the case of temporal gradation “p , q”, the meaning “q” specifies the time during which the referent carries the mean-ing “p”. Frederik H. H. Kortlandt article http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14633 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:39:10 +0200