The volume includes a wide range of topics in English linguistics covering such diverse fields as 142, textlinguistics, varieties of english and the history of English language. Contributions in English and German.
- Contents
- Foreword
- Gottfried Graustein: A Bibliography
- Grammar and text in synchrony and diachrony
- Textual implications of adverbial placement
- On the spread of WH-relativization in the history of English
- The Ancrene Riwle: a medieval rule for nuns - intertextual relations of four of its versions
- Persuasive strategies of British columnists
- The conceptual space between conditionals and so-called concessives
- Grammar and university language teaching
- Reflexionen über Texte und Textlinguistik
- Ist than wirklich auf dem Vormarsch? Eine korpusgestützte Untersuchung zu einem 'usage'-Problem
- The interaction of textual and lexical factors in the identification of paragraph boundaries
- Determiners and possessive form in the English noun phrase
- Wer schrieb die erste deutsche Grammatik in englischer Sprache?
- Jonathan Swift's English as seen from today
- Perspektiven der Performanzanalyse
- "A breezier idiom". The treatment of varieties in histories of the English language
- Some notes on concessive but
- Textkohärenz auf semantisch-logischer Grundlage
- Text parameters in fiction
- Was hat Tony Blair mit dem Gärtner zu tun?
- Reading a Disney comics story as suture
- Zur Beschreibung der funktional-semantischen Kategorien Adversativität und Konzessivität
- List of contributors