Christian Lehmann
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christian Lehmann plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 1382-3485
2019 Complex spatial prepositions from Latin to Castilian Les prépositions complexes dans les langues romanes, Fagard, Benjamin, José Pinto De Lima and Dejan Stosic (eds.), pp. 93–125 | Article
From among the various processes that form prepositions in the history from Latin to Castilian, the investigation concentrates on the formation of prepositional adverbs like Spanish delante (de) ‘in front (of)’. There are two mechanisms for their formation: (a) An adverb or a preposition is… read more
2014 Indirect coding Morphology and Meaning: Selected papers from the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2012, Rainer, Franz, Francesco Gardani, Hans Christian Luschützky and Wolfgang U. Dressler (eds.), pp. 97–124 | Article
Morphologically and syntactically conditioned alternations indirectly code their conditioner. The distinction between semantic information that is coded by a property of an expression and semantic information that conditions and constrains a property of an expression brings rigor into linguistic… read more
2010 Roots, stems and word classes Parts of Speech: Empirical and theoretical advances, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 43–64 | Article
2008 Hocank's challenge to morphological theory Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages, Harrison, K. David, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer (eds.), pp. 271–316 | Article
Hočank is a highly endangered Siouan language of Wisconsin and Nebraska which currently is the object of an extensive documentation project at the University of Erfurt, Germany. The paper presents a descriptive investigation of parts of Hočank verb morphology and its implications for morphological… read more
2008 Roots, stems and word classes Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs, Ansaldo, Umberto, Jan Don and Roland Pfau (eds.), pp. 546–567 | Article
The assignment of a linguistic sign to a word class is an operation that must be seen as part of the overall transformation of extralinguistic substance into linguistic form. In this, it is comparable to such processes as the transitivization of a verbal base, which further specifies a relatively… read more
2008 Information structure and grammaticalization Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization, Seoane, Elena and María José López-Couso (eds.), pp. 207–229 | Article
2006 Participant roles, thematic roles and syntactic relations Voice and Grammatical Relations: In Honor of Masayoshi Shibatani, Tsunoda, Tasaku and Taro Kageyama (eds.), pp. 153–174 | Article
2006 Extraversive transitivization in Yucatec Maya and the nature of the applicative Case, Valency and Transitivity, Kulikov, Leonid, Andrej L. Malchukov and Peter de Swart (eds.), pp. 465–493 | Article
2002 New reflections on grammaticalization and lexicalization New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
1991 Grammaticalization and related changes in contemporary German Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 493–558 | Article
1990 The Latin nominal group in typological perspective New Studies in Latin Linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Cambridge, April 1987, Coleman, Robert (ed.), pp. 203–232 | Article
1990 Towards lexical typology Studies in Typology and Diachrony: Papers presented to Joseph H. Greenberg on his 75th birthday, Croft, William A., Suzanne Kemmer and Keith Denning (eds.), pp. 161–186 | Article
1989 Latin subordination in typological perspective Subordination and Other Topics in Latin: Proceedings of the Third Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Bologna, 1–5 April 1985, Calboli, Gualtiero (ed.), pp. 153–180 | Article
1988 Towards a typology of clause linkage Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, Haiman, John and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 181–226 | Article
1984 Review of Hagège (2006/1982): La structure des langues Studies in Language 8:1, pp. 97–102 | Review
1983 Latin preverbs and cases Latin Linguistics and Linguistic Theory: Proceedings of the 1st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 1981, Pinkster, Harm (ed.), pp. 145–166 | Article
