Volker Gast
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 804115 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Volker Gast |
| NOMBRES | Volker |
| APELLIDO | Gast |
| FIRMA | GAST V |
| AFILIACIONES | Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3034-0052 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Excessive events
This paper presents a detailed semantic and accompanying syntactic analysis of predicates denoting events that we describe as ‘excessive’ in Icelandic. Icelandic uses two types of strategies for marking of excess, the preposition yfir complemented by an anaphor (e.g. Sara bakaði yfir sig ‘Sara baked too much’), and the verbal prefix of- (e.g. Sara of-bakaði kökuna ‘Sara over-baked the cake’). We argue that the former strategy regularly expresses …
Different models, different assumptions, different findings
Article Different models, different assumptions, different findings: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo was published on July 28, 2025 in the journal Linguistic Typology (volume 0, issue 0)
A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis
Nouns and verbs are known to differ in the types of grammatical information they encode. What is less well known is the relationship between verbal and nominal coding within and across languages. The equi-complexity hypothesis holds that all languages are equally complex overall, which entails trade-offs between coding in different domains. From a diachronic point of view, this hypothesis implies that the loss and gain of coding in different doma…
Nouns, Verbs and Other Parts of Speech in Translation and Interpreting
This study investigates the distributions of word classes in English speeches made in the European Parliament and their German (written) translations and simultaneous interpretations. For comparison, a sample of original German speeches and a selection of political interviews are used. The study is motivated by the intention to understand the relationship between the type of mediation and communicative modes: mediated spoken language is compared …
Patterns of persistence and diffusibility in the European lexicon
This article investigates to what extent the semantics and the phonological forms of lexical items are genealogically inherited or acquired through language contact. We focus on patterns of colexification (the encoding of two concepts with the same word) as an aspect of lexical-semantic organization. We test two pairs of hypotheses. The first pair concerns the genealogical stability (persistence) and susceptibility to contact-induced change (diff…
Language Use and Linguistic Structure
The editors are grateful to all those who have helped make the fifth volume of the Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (and the ninth volume in the whole series) a reality.Above all, as always, we would like to thank all the authors for both their enthusiastic participation in the conference and their cooperation in the time-consuming editorial process.We would also like to express our immense gratitude to all the reviewers who devo…
The rise of right periphery either in English
Chapter 15. Impersonal uses of the second person singular and generalized empathy
Second person forms of pronouns (e.g. Engl. you , Germ. du ) or verbs (e.g. Russian pišeš ‘you write’) have a basically deictic function and refer to the addressee. In uses that have been called “impersonal” or “non-canonical”, the second person forms are used in a generalizing way (e.g. You only live once ), often in combination with predicates that are not literally true of the addressee (e.g. As the Pope you have to be righteous , said by the …
Impersonal uses of the second person singular
Rezensionsexemplare
Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
W(h)-Clefts im Deutschen und Englischen
Dieser Beitrag beschftigt sich mit einem Vergleich der englischen wh-Clefts und deren Entsprechungen im Deutschen, den Sperrstzen' oder w-Clefts'. Auf Grundlage einer umfangreichen Korpusstudie werden zunchst Unterschiede in der Verteilung bestimmter w/h-Cleftsatztypen ermittelt. Ein generelles quantitatives bergewicht der englischen wh-Clefts gegenber den deutschen w-Clefts wird mit der flexibleren Wortstellung des Deutschen in Verbindung gebrac…
Scalar Additive Operators in the Languages of Europe
Scalar additive operators, such as Engl. even , Fr. même, Germ. sogar , Sp. aun , and so forth, vary crosslinguistically in terms of their distributional behavior, in particular with respect to semantic and pragmatic properties of the sentential environment (scale-reversing vs. scale-preserving, negative vs. nonnegative). This article proposes a semantic framework for the crosslinguistic analysis of scalar additive operators and a typology based …
On reciprocal and reflexive uses of anaphors in German and other European languages
Reciprocals and Reflexives
Reciprocity and reflexivity – description, typology and theory
Reciprocals and Reflexives
I gave it him — on the motivation of the ‘alternative double object construction’ in varieties of British English
Three ditransitive constructions can be found in varieties of British English: (i) the ‘prepositional object construction’, where the recipient is encoded as a prepositional phrase ( gave it to him ); (ii) the ‘canonical double object construction’, where the recipient precedes the theme ( gave him it ); and (iii) the ‘alternative double object construction’, where the theme precedes the recipient ( gave it him ). The last of these constructions …
Rethinking the relationship between Self-intensifiers and reflexives
Recent studies into the syntax and semantics of intensifying self-forms (e.g. [John HIMSELF] came) have shown that a distinction needs to be drawn between two uses of such expressions: a juxtaposed or adnominal use (cf. above), and a non-juxtaposed use (e.g. John [came HIMSELF]). This differentiation allows us to reconsider a number of issues relating to the synchronic and diachronic relationship between SELF-intensifiers and reflexive anaphors. …
Impersonal uses of the second person singular
Scalar Additive Operators in the Languages of Europe
Scalar additive operators, such as Engl. even , Fr. même, Germ. sogar , Sp. aun , and so forth, vary crosslinguistically in terms of their distributional behavior, in particular with respect to semantic and pragmatic properties of the sentential environment (scale-reversing vs. scale-preserving, negative vs. nonnegative). This article proposes a semantic framework for the crosslinguistic analysis of scalar additive operators and a typology based …
Language Use and Linguistic Structure
The editors are grateful to all those who have helped make the fifth volume of the Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (and the ninth volume in the whole series) a reality.Above all, as always, we would like to thank all the authors for both their enthusiastic participation in the conference and their cooperation in the time-consuming editorial process.We would also like to express our immense gratitude to all the reviewers who devo…
Rethinking the relationship between Self-intensifiers and reflexives
Recent studies into the syntax and semantics of intensifying self-forms (e.g. [John HIMSELF] came) have shown that a distinction needs to be drawn between two uses of such expressions: a juxtaposed or adnominal use (cf. above), and a non-juxtaposed use (e.g. John [came HIMSELF]). This differentiation allows us to reconsider a number of issues relating to the synchronic and diachronic relationship between SELF-intensifiers and reflexive anaphors. …
Rethinking the relationship between Self-intensifiers and reflexives
Recent studies into the syntax and semantics of intensifying self-forms (e.g. [John HIMSELF] came) have shown that a distinction needs to be drawn between two uses of such expressions: a juxtaposed or adnominal use (cf. above), and a non-juxtaposed use (e.g. John [came HIMSELF]). This differentiation allows us to reconsider a number of issues relating to the synchronic and diachronic relationship between SELF-intensifiers and reflexive anaphors. …
I gave it him — on the motivation of the ‘alternative double object construction’ in varieties of British English
Three ditransitive constructions can be found in varieties of British English: (i) the ‘prepositional object construction’, where the recipient is encoded as a prepositional phrase ( gave it to him ); (ii) the ‘canonical double object construction’, where the recipient precedes the theme ( gave him it ); and (iii) the ‘alternative double object construction’, where the theme precedes the recipient ( gave it him ). The last of these constructions …
On reciprocal and reflexive uses of anaphors in German and other European languages
Reciprocals and Reflexives
Reciprocity and reflexivity – description, typology and theory
Reciprocals and Reflexives
Scalar Additive Operators in the Languages of Europe
Scalar additive operators, such as Engl. even , Fr. même, Germ. sogar , Sp. aun , and so forth, vary crosslinguistically in terms of their distributional behavior, in particular with respect to semantic and pragmatic properties of the sentential environment (scale-reversing vs. scale-preserving, negative vs. nonnegative). This article proposes a semantic framework for the crosslinguistic analysis of scalar additive operators and a typology based …
Clause Linkage in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
W(h)-Clefts im Deutschen und Englischen
Dieser Beitrag beschftigt sich mit einem Vergleich der englischen wh-Clefts und deren Entsprechungen im Deutschen, den Sperrstzen' oder w-Clefts'. Auf Grundlage einer umfangreichen Korpusstudie werden zunchst Unterschiede in der Verteilung bestimmter w/h-Cleftsatztypen ermittelt. Ein generelles quantitatives bergewicht der englischen wh-Clefts gegenber den deutschen w-Clefts wird mit der flexibleren Wortstellung des Deutschen in Verbindung gebrac…
Rezensionsexemplare
Chapter 15. Impersonal uses of the second person singular and generalized empathy
Second person forms of pronouns (e.g. Engl. you , Germ. du ) or verbs (e.g. Russian pišeš ‘you write’) have a basically deictic function and refer to the addressee. In uses that have been called “impersonal” or “non-canonical”, the second person forms are used in a generalizing way (e.g. You only live once ), often in combination with predicates that are not literally true of the addressee (e.g. As the Pope you have to be righteous , said by the …
Impersonal uses of the second person singular
The rise of right periphery either in English
Patterns of persistence and diffusibility in the European lexicon
This article investigates to what extent the semantics and the phonological forms of lexical items are genealogically inherited or acquired through language contact. We focus on patterns of colexification (the encoding of two concepts with the same word) as an aspect of lexical-semantic organization. We test two pairs of hypotheses. The first pair concerns the genealogical stability (persistence) and susceptibility to contact-induced change (diff…
Language Use and Linguistic Structure
The editors are grateful to all those who have helped make the fifth volume of the Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (and the ninth volume in the whole series) a reality.Above all, as always, we would like to thank all the authors for both their enthusiastic participation in the conference and their cooperation in the time-consuming editorial process.We would also like to express our immense gratitude to all the reviewers who devo…
A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis
Nouns and verbs are known to differ in the types of grammatical information they encode. What is less well known is the relationship between verbal and nominal coding within and across languages. The equi-complexity hypothesis holds that all languages are equally complex overall, which entails trade-offs between coding in different domains. From a diachronic point of view, this hypothesis implies that the loss and gain of coding in different doma…
Nouns, Verbs and Other Parts of Speech in Translation and Interpreting
This study investigates the distributions of word classes in English speeches made in the European Parliament and their German (written) translations and simultaneous interpretations. For comparison, a sample of original German speeches and a selection of political interviews are used. The study is motivated by the intention to understand the relationship between the type of mediation and communicative modes: mediated spoken language is compared …
Excessive events
This paper presents a detailed semantic and accompanying syntactic analysis of predicates denoting events that we describe as ‘excessive’ in Icelandic. Icelandic uses two types of strategies for marking of excess, the preposition yfir complemented by an anaphor (e.g. Sara bakaði yfir sig ‘Sara baked too much’), and the verbal prefix of- (e.g. Sara of-bakaði kökuna ‘Sara over-baked the cake’). We argue that the former strategy regularly expresses …
Different models, different assumptions, different findings
Article Different models, different assumptions, different findings: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo was published on July 28, 2025 in the journal Linguistic Typology (volume 0, issue 0)
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