Tilo Stolz
Biographic Data
| ID | 135955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tilo Stolz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tilo |
| FAMILY NAME | Stolz |
| SIGNATURE | STOLZ T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bremen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0846-2675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Familiarity-based splits in the grammar of toponyms
This paper argues for considering familiarity a candidate for the status of parameter in the domain of the Grammar of Names. The evidence in support of this claim is drawn from the Special Toponymic Grammar of twelve genealogically, typologically, and geographically different languages. It is shown that place names of the same class are frequently subject to a division into two subcategories, namely, on the one hand, place names that are familiar…
Grammatical name marking in Chamorro
Chamorro illustrates how Special Onymic Grammar can be shaped in a given language. It is shown that the rules that determine the morphosyntactic behaviour of common nouns cannot be generalized over onyms. Anthroponyms and toponyms differ markedly from common nouns within the NP and beyond. In addition, there are also structural differences that separate anthroponyms from toponyms so that it makes sense to speak of Special Anthroponymic Grammar as…
Mesoamerica as a linguistic area
The naked truth about the Chamorro dual
It is argued that the traditional belief that the formal expression of the dual in Chamorro is restricted to intransitivity / low transitivity is inadequate since it precludes the possibility of accounting constructions in which the dual is also expressed in combination with transitive verbs. In the empirical part of the study, evidence of the recurrent violations of the intransitivity-based restrictions is discussed. It is shown that the dual is…
Comparative Colonial Toponomastics
On classifiers and their absence in Classical and Colonial Nahuatl
This paper addresses the issue of the reported optional character of numeral classifiers in Classical and Colonial Nahuatl. On the basis of the qualitative assessment of the co-occurrence of numerals with classifiers or zero in constructions which serve the purpose of quantifying or ordinally ranking NPs, the optionality hypothesis is assessed. The question is raised whether or not the presence and absence of classifiers is arbitrary or triggered…
Kamusella, 2014. The Upper Silesian Creole. Kreol górnośląski. Das oberschlesische Kreol. Le créole haute-silésien. Wiyrchnoślōnski kreol
© No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher.
When places change their names and when they do not. Selected aspects of colonial and postcolonial toponymy in former French and Spanish colonies in West Africa - the cases of Saint Louis (Senegal) an…
The article aims at demonstrating that toponymy in colonial and postcolonial settings is a promising area for linguistically-informed research. On the basis of evidence drawn from erstwhile colonies of France (with a focus on Senegal) and Spain (with a focus on the Western Sahara) it is shown that, on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, the processes of naming and renaming places are conditioned by an intricate network of mostly social forces. The…
When some dots turn a different color: Thoughts on how (not) to determine whether or not reduplication is universal
This paper examines some of the problems which arise in connection with the question of whether or not reduplication is a language universal. The point of departure of the study is Moravcsik’s (1978) seminal paper on reduplicative constructions in cross-linguistic perspective. In the main body of the paper, the picture of the geo-linguistic distribution of reduplication that is painted in the World Atlas of Language Structures (Haspelmath et al. …
Chamorro Inflection
This chapter provides the first comprehensive account of the inflectional morphology of the Austronesian language Chamorro. It aims at clarifying a number of controversial issues such as the morphological status of the person markers (prefixes vs. proclitics) in the perfective aspect. The pros and cons of previous alternative analyses are taken into account. The rules which determine the use of allomorphs are spelt out and discussed in some detai…
Europäische Besitzungen. Zur gespaltenen Possession im europäischen Sprachvergleich
Die Aufbauprinzipien europäischer Possessionssysteme basieren viel öfter als gemeinhin angenommen auf gespaltener Possession. Dieses im Deutschen nicht prominente Phänomen wird anhand von Daten aus ausgewählten Beispielsprachen als in Europa durchaus etablierte Erscheinung vorgestellt. Die mit ihm verbundenen semantischen und morphosyntaktischen Aspekte werden anhand von qualitativen Korpusdaten diskutiert. Die Restriktionen, denen sie unterliege…
Monosyllables: From Phonology to Typology
Studia Typologica is the companion series of the journal Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung/Language Typology and Universals (STUF). Studia Typologica publishes scholarly studies of high quality dedicated to promising new topics in the realm of general-comparative linguistics. The series especially welcomes contributions which argue on a solid empirical foundation, have a cross-linguistic orientation and raise new issues which are addresse…
[Review Of: [] Nicole Nau. 2011. A Short Grammar of Latgalian
Nicole Nau, A Short Grammar of Latgalian. (Languages of the World/Materials, 482.) München: LINCOM Europa, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-86288-055-3. Nicole Nau’s descriptive grammar of Latgalian is a valuable addition to the catalogue of sources from which typologists can draw informationfor cross-linguistic studies. In previous samples—even in the most sizable ones—Latgalian was hardly ever represented, becausethe necessary information about its structural…
Total Reduplication: The Areal Linguistics of a Potential Universal
Total reduplication is a widely common phenomenon in human languages. Nevertheless, it has not gained sufficient attention among linguists. This monograph demonstrates that the comparative study of total reduplication challenges the traditional notion of linguistic universal. Contrary to the belief that total reduplication is almost completely unknown in the linguistic landscape of Europe, it is shown that a sizable group of European languages ma…
Kolonialzeitliche Sprachforschung: Die Beschreibung afrikanischer und ozeanischer Sprachen zur Zeit der deutschen Kolonialherrschaft
This edited volume highlights various aspects of a hitherto neglected research topic. During the relatively short period of German colonialism (1884-1918/20) in Africa, China and Oceania, literally hundreds of texts were produced which treat of the indigenous languages of the German colonial empire. Many of these texts have never appeared in print. The contributions are indicative of the wealth of interesting insights (the historiography of) ling…
With(out): On the markedness relation between comitatives/instrumentals and abessives
Over the last sixty years, comitatives and instrumentals have attracted the attention of many linguists of different theoretical convictions. In contrast, their logical negative counterpart, the abessive, constitutes still largely unexplored territory, cross-linguistically. In the very few studies that mention it, the abessive is often depicted as the negated comitative/instrumental which, together with the comitative/ instrumental itself, forms …
On Comitatives and Related Categories: A Typological Study with Special Focus on the Languages of Europe
This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. Three types of languages are identified according to the morphological tre…
THOMAS Berg, Linguistic structure and change. An explanation front language processing
Minor Languages of Europe
"Was ich noch sagen wollte…": A multilingual Festschrift for Norbert Boretzkyon occasion of his 65 th birthday
During the past three decades Norbert Boretzky (born 1935 in Breslau) has contributed excellent scholarly work in an impressive variety of subject matters in various linguistic subdisciplines. Among his many scientific achievements, his groundbreaking research in the field of Pidgin and Creole language studies stands out much in the same way as his well-renowned and well-received publications in Balkan linguistics, Albanian linguistics, Slavic ph…
On Circum-Baltic instrumentals and comitatives: To and fro coherence
Pronominal possession in Faroese and the parameters of alienability/inalienability
The paper seeks to demonstrate that grammatically relevant distinctions of alienable vs. inalienable possession are not completely uncommon in modern Indo-European languages of Europe. A detailed analysis of pronominal attributive possession in presentday Faroese shows that there is a clearly defined system at work determined by semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic factors. The interplay of these factors is described on the basis of a corpus analys…
Maya-K'iche' und Spanisch--Sprachkontakt und Sprachconflikt im Guatemala: Eine soziolinguistische Beschreibung der Communidad de Zunil. Renate Büscher-Grotehusmann
To be with X is to have X: Comitatives, Instrumentals, Locative, and Predicative Possession
Comitatives and instrumentals are characterized by markedly different behavior as to their combinability with additional functions. This is especially the case with possession and locative: normally, possession is compatible with comitative as an additional function, whereas the instrumental does not enter combinations with possession easily. Similarly, instrumentals display a propensity to associate with additional locative functions from which …
Democratization in Late Twentieth-Century Africa: Coping with Uncertainty
To be with X is to have X: Comitatives, Instrumentals, Locative, and Predicative Possession
Comitatives and instrumentals are characterized by markedly different behavior as to their combinability with additional functions. This is especially the case with possession and locative: normally, possession is compatible with comitative as an additional function, whereas the instrumental does not enter combinations with possession easily. Similarly, instrumentals display a propensity to associate with additional locative functions from which …
Democratization in Late Twentieth-Century Africa: Coping with Uncertainty
Chamorro Inflection
This chapter provides the first comprehensive account of the inflectional morphology of the Austronesian language Chamorro. It aims at clarifying a number of controversial issues such as the morphological status of the person markers (prefixes vs. proclitics) in the perfective aspect. The pros and cons of previous alternative analyses are taken into account. The rules which determine the use of allomorphs are spelt out and discussed in some detai…
Zum Wandel Der Morphotaktischen Positionsregeln Des Baltischen Reflexivzeichens
Some Instruments Are Really Good Companions - Some Are Not. On Syncretism and the Typology of Instrumentals and Comitatives
Article SOME INSTRUMENTS ARE REALLY GOOD COMPANIONS - SOME ARE NOT. ON SYNCRETISM AND THE TYPOLOGY OF INSTRUMENTALS AND COMITATIVES. was published on January 1, 1997 in the journal Theoretical Linguistics (volume 23, issue 1-2)
Democratization in Late Twentieth-Century Africa: Coping with Uncertainty
"Was ich noch sagen wollte…": A multilingual Festschrift for Norbert Boretzkyon occasion of his 65 th birthday
During the past three decades Norbert Boretzky (born 1935 in Breslau) has contributed excellent scholarly work in an impressive variety of subject matters in various linguistic subdisciplines. Among his many scientific achievements, his groundbreaking research in the field of Pidgin and Creole language studies stands out much in the same way as his well-renowned and well-received publications in Balkan linguistics, Albanian linguistics, Slavic ph…
On Circum-Baltic instrumentals and comitatives: To and fro coherence
Pronominal possession in Faroese and the parameters of alienability/inalienability
The paper seeks to demonstrate that grammatically relevant distinctions of alienable vs. inalienable possession are not completely uncommon in modern Indo-European languages of Europe. A detailed analysis of pronominal attributive possession in presentday Faroese shows that there is a clearly defined system at work determined by semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic factors. The interplay of these factors is described on the basis of a corpus analys…
Maya-K'iche' und Spanisch--Sprachkontakt und Sprachconflikt im Guatemala: Eine soziolinguistische Beschreibung der Communidad de Zunil. Renate Büscher-Grotehusmann
To be with X is to have X: Comitatives, Instrumentals, Locative, and Predicative Possession
Comitatives and instrumentals are characterized by markedly different behavior as to their combinability with additional functions. This is especially the case with possession and locative: normally, possession is compatible with comitative as an additional function, whereas the instrumental does not enter combinations with possession easily. Similarly, instrumentals display a propensity to associate with additional locative functions from which …
Minor Languages of Europe
THOMAS Berg, Linguistic structure and change. An explanation front language processing
On Comitatives and Related Categories: A Typological Study with Special Focus on the Languages of Europe
This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. Three types of languages are identified according to the morphological tre…
With(out): On the markedness relation between comitatives/instrumentals and abessives
Over the last sixty years, comitatives and instrumentals have attracted the attention of many linguists of different theoretical convictions. In contrast, their logical negative counterpart, the abessive, constitutes still largely unexplored territory, cross-linguistically. In the very few studies that mention it, the abessive is often depicted as the negated comitative/instrumental which, together with the comitative/ instrumental itself, forms …
Total Reduplication: The Areal Linguistics of a Potential Universal
Total reduplication is a widely common phenomenon in human languages. Nevertheless, it has not gained sufficient attention among linguists. This monograph demonstrates that the comparative study of total reduplication challenges the traditional notion of linguistic universal. Contrary to the belief that total reduplication is almost completely unknown in the linguistic landscape of Europe, it is shown that a sizable group of European languages ma…
Kolonialzeitliche Sprachforschung: Die Beschreibung afrikanischer und ozeanischer Sprachen zur Zeit der deutschen Kolonialherrschaft
This edited volume highlights various aspects of a hitherto neglected research topic. During the relatively short period of German colonialism (1884-1918/20) in Africa, China and Oceania, literally hundreds of texts were produced which treat of the indigenous languages of the German colonial empire. Many of these texts have never appeared in print. The contributions are indicative of the wealth of interesting insights (the historiography of) ling…
Europäische Besitzungen. Zur gespaltenen Possession im europäischen Sprachvergleich
Die Aufbauprinzipien europäischer Possessionssysteme basieren viel öfter als gemeinhin angenommen auf gespaltener Possession. Dieses im Deutschen nicht prominente Phänomen wird anhand von Daten aus ausgewählten Beispielsprachen als in Europa durchaus etablierte Erscheinung vorgestellt. Die mit ihm verbundenen semantischen und morphosyntaktischen Aspekte werden anhand von qualitativen Korpusdaten diskutiert. Die Restriktionen, denen sie unterliege…
Monosyllables: From Phonology to Typology
Studia Typologica is the companion series of the journal Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung/Language Typology and Universals (STUF). Studia Typologica publishes scholarly studies of high quality dedicated to promising new topics in the realm of general-comparative linguistics. The series especially welcomes contributions which argue on a solid empirical foundation, have a cross-linguistic orientation and raise new issues which are addresse…
[Review Of: [] Nicole Nau. 2011. A Short Grammar of Latgalian
Nicole Nau, A Short Grammar of Latgalian. (Languages of the World/Materials, 482.) München: LINCOM Europa, 2011. ISBN: 978-3-86288-055-3. Nicole Nau’s descriptive grammar of Latgalian is a valuable addition to the catalogue of sources from which typologists can draw informationfor cross-linguistic studies. In previous samples—even in the most sizable ones—Latgalian was hardly ever represented, becausethe necessary information about its structural…
When some dots turn a different color: Thoughts on how (not) to determine whether or not reduplication is universal
This paper examines some of the problems which arise in connection with the question of whether or not reduplication is a language universal. The point of departure of the study is Moravcsik’s (1978) seminal paper on reduplicative constructions in cross-linguistic perspective. In the main body of the paper, the picture of the geo-linguistic distribution of reduplication that is painted in the World Atlas of Language Structures (Haspelmath et al. …
Chamorro Inflection
This chapter provides the first comprehensive account of the inflectional morphology of the Austronesian language Chamorro. It aims at clarifying a number of controversial issues such as the morphological status of the person markers (prefixes vs. proclitics) in the perfective aspect. The pros and cons of previous alternative analyses are taken into account. The rules which determine the use of allomorphs are spelt out and discussed in some detai…
When places change their names and when they do not. Selected aspects of colonial and postcolonial toponymy in former French and Spanish colonies in West Africa - the cases of Saint Louis (Senegal) an…
The article aims at demonstrating that toponymy in colonial and postcolonial settings is a promising area for linguistically-informed research. On the basis of evidence drawn from erstwhile colonies of France (with a focus on Senegal) and Spain (with a focus on the Western Sahara) it is shown that, on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, the processes of naming and renaming places are conditioned by an intricate network of mostly social forces. The…
Kamusella, 2014. The Upper Silesian Creole. Kreol górnośląski. Das oberschlesische Kreol. Le créole haute-silésien. Wiyrchnoślōnski kreol
© No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher.
Comparative Colonial Toponomastics
On classifiers and their absence in Classical and Colonial Nahuatl
This paper addresses the issue of the reported optional character of numeral classifiers in Classical and Colonial Nahuatl. On the basis of the qualitative assessment of the co-occurrence of numerals with classifiers or zero in constructions which serve the purpose of quantifying or ordinally ranking NPs, the optionality hypothesis is assessed. The question is raised whether or not the presence and absence of classifiers is arbitrary or triggered…
The naked truth about the Chamorro dual
It is argued that the traditional belief that the formal expression of the dual in Chamorro is restricted to intransitivity / low transitivity is inadequate since it precludes the possibility of accounting constructions in which the dual is also expressed in combination with transitive verbs. In the empirical part of the study, evidence of the recurrent violations of the intransitivity-based restrictions is discussed. It is shown that the dual is…
Mesoamerica as a linguistic area
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