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New applications of Role & Reference Grammar: Diachrony, Grammaticalization, Romance languages
Editor: Rolf Kailuweit, Björn Wiemer, Eva Staudinger, Ranko Matasović
Date Of Publication: Jan 2008
Isbn13: 9781847184092
Isbn: 1-84718-409-X
The first part is comprised of seven articles dealing with possible applications of RRG to diachronic syntax and grammaticalization. Beside an overview article, the papers are mainly concerned with changes either in the interaction between topic-focus structure and the Layered Structure of the Clause or in the selection of Privileged Syntactic Arguments and case assignment. The second part consists of applications of RRG to Romance languages, and most of these applications are mainly concerned with the syntax-semantics interface. Different aspects of verbs (verbs as operators, verbs as sentence predicates, verb alternations) and the syntactic and semantic structures they involve are analyzed from an RRG perspective.

Rolf Kailuweit (*1965 in West Berlin, Germany) philosophy and Romance languages and literature. After finishing his PhD in Romance Philology in 1996 at the University of Berlin (FU), he went to Heidelberg. He completed his postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) there in 2003, and since 2004 he has been Professor of Linguistics and Media Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg in the department of Romance languages.  

Ranko Matasović (*1968 in Zagreb, Croatia) received his Ph. D. from the University of Zagreb in 1995. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) from 1997-8 and a Humboldt Fellow at Bonn University from 2002-3. He is currently full professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Zagreb.

Eva Staudinger (*1976 in Heilbronn, Germany) studied computational linguistics, linguistics, English and Romance languages at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is currently a research assistant at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg in the department of Romance languages.

Björn Wiemer (*1966 in Hamburg, Germany) studied Slavic and General Linguistics in Hamburg and Leningrad (M.A. 1992, Hamburg). Before his PhD (1996, Hamburg) he was a post-graduate student for two years in Warsaw. From 1996-2007, he worked at the Chair of Slavic Languages at the University of Constance (Germany), where he finished his post-doctoral thesis in 2002. Since 2007, he is Professor at the Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. 

“For the first time in the history of RRG, the framework is shown to be a powerful tool also in the realm of diachronic linguistics. Thus, it is to be expected that this book will trigger a new wave of diachronically minded in-depth studies for which RRG serves as the frame of reference. Accordingly, some of the papers demonstrate convincingly that RRG has substantial things to say when it comes to analyzing data from extinct languages or older stages of languages. Moreover, the many thought-provoking ideas expressed in this edited volume suggest that RRG and grammaticalization theory can work hand in hand successfully.”

Prof. Thomas Stolz, University of Bremen

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