Georg Bossong
List of John Benjamins publications for which Georg Bossong plays a role.
2009 Divergence, convergence, contact: Challenges for the genealogical classification of languages Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations, Braunmüller, Kurt and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 13–40 | Article
The genealogical paradigm, classically formulated by Meillet, still dominates language classification. Despite of its weaknesses, the tree model is at the base of all global or particular language lists. Distinguishing common heritage from subsequent borrowing is a matter of hot debates in all… read more
2009 The Typology of Tupi-Guarani as Reflected in the Grammars of Four Jesuit Missionaries: Anchieta (1595), Aragona (c.1625), Montoya (1640) and Restivo (1729) Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics, Zwartjes, Otto and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 225–258 | Article
Some fundamental typological peculiarities of Guarani, namely the inclusive-exclusive distinction, transnumerality, the nominal tense, the (non)-distinction of subjects and objects, and duality (active-stative alignment) are presented and analyzed from both a modern and a historical perspective:… read more
2007 The influence of missionary descriptions of far eastern languages on western linguistic thought: The case of Cristoforo Borri, S.J. and Tommaso Campanella Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III: Morphology and Syntax, Zwartjes, Otto, Gregory James and Emilio Ridruejo (eds.), pp. 123–144 | Article
1991 Differential Object Marking in Romance and Beyond New Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XVIII, Urbana-Champaign, April 7–9, 1988, Wanner, Dieter and Douglas A. Kibbee (eds.), pp. 143–170 | Article
1989 Morphemic Marking of Topic and Focus Universals of Language, Kefer, Michel and Johan van der Auwera (eds.), pp. 27–51 | Article