Papers in Theoretical Linguistics

✍ Scribed by Niels Danielsen

• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Series: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 23
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains eight papers by the late Niels Danielsen, Danish linguist and philologist, and serves as an introduction to his theory of linguistic universality. The papers highlight the most important universals introduced by him, such as linguistic polarity, the constitutional axis of language, the verbal nuclei, the nomic structure of sentences, the transversal relations and the critical field of distribution. All articles are reprinted in their original form, except for the paper originally entitled "Zur Universalitaet der Sprache", which is here presented in an English translation. The volume is completed by a biographical sketch of Danielsen by Laurits Rendboe and a full list of his publications.

✦ Table of Contents

PAPERSIN THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
FOREWORD......Page 8
NIELS DANIELSEN: LIST OF PUBLICATIONS......Page 12
NIELS DANIELSEN IN MEMORIAM......Page 16
ON THE UNIVERSALITY OF LANGUAGE......Page 22
REFERENCES......Page 56
DIE RELATIVA IM NEUHOCHDEUTSCHENUND - UND ANDREN SPRACHEN......Page 58
Anhang......Page 73
ON THE NUCLEUS CONSTRUCTIONS IN HUMAN LANGUAGE......Page 82
A FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL STEP TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL SYNTAX......Page 118
THE CASES UNRAVELLED (OR: BACK TO LINGUISTICS!)......Page 126
Notes......Page 160
Bibliography......Page 161
A FINAL WREST: ON EXISTENCE, EXISTENTIAL DISSEMINATIONS AND THEIR DELEGATIONS......Page 162
Notes......Page 190
PLÄDOYER GEGEN DIE GENERATIVEN TIEFENOPERATIONEN......Page 192
KINETIC ANALYSIS OF SENTENCES......Page 214
A CONCISE LIST OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED IN A NOMIC ANALYSIS......Page 238
INDEX OF LANGUAGES......Page 240
INDEX OF AUTHORS......Page 244