Elke Nowak

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elke Nowak is involved.

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History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide

Edited by David Cram, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak

The papers in this volume present a colourful picture of the range of research currently being undertaken in the field of the history of linguistics, with contribution both from established scholars and from younger researchers. The volume is organised on a geographical basis, with sections devoted… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 94] 1999. xx, 341 pp.

History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 2: From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics

Edited by David Cram, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak

This volume contains papers on linguistic historiography ranging chronologically from ancient Greece to the present, and covering philosophical, social and political aspects of language as well as the study of grammar in the narrow sense. The work opens with the report on a round-table discussion… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 95] 1999. xx, 390 pp.

Nowak, Elke 2010 Wilhelm von Humboldt, Mittelamerikanische Grammatiken. Herausgegeben von Manfred Ringmacher und Ute Tintemann Historiographia Linguistica 37:3, pp. 417–423 | Review

Nowak, Elke 2009 Arguments and information management in Inuktitut Variations on Polysynthesis: The Eskaleut languages, Mahieu, Marc-Antoine and Nicole Tersis (eds.), pp. 201–214 | Chapter

Research on a variety of structurally different languages suggests that information packaging is assigned to grammatical form via preferred representations of arguments. According to the Preferred Argument Structure Hypothesis (PAS), these preferences can be captured by four interacting constraints. read more

Nowak, Elke 1999 Investigating diversity: Descriptive grammars, empirical research and the science of language History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 155–164 | Chapter

Nowak, Elke 1992 How to “Improve” a Language: The Case of Eighteenth Century Descriptions of Greenlandic Diversions of Galway: Papers on the history of linguistics from ICHoLS V, Ahlqvist, Anders (ed.), pp. 157–168 | Article

Nowak, Elke 1990 Zum Verhältnis von Sprachtheorie und Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft: Überlegungen anhand Samuel Kleinschmidts Grammatik der groönländischen Sprache History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24–28 August 1987, Niederehe, Hans-Josef and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 759–771 | Chapter