The article discusses codification as an important form of systematization legislation, questions related to its understanding, a brief history codification, significance in the system law and enforcement today, role world legal systems families, including Romano-Germanic. On basis modern realities development from state-legal point view, such issues common distinctive aspects process other wel...

This paper takes a closer look at the attraction properties of T. It highlights an empirically attested distinction between rich agreement inflection, exhibited by null-subject languages, and rich tense inflection, found in Romance, but not Germanic, and argues for the syntactic relevance of this distinction. We propose a novel typology of the ways in which T's featural requirements can be sati...

We study the frequency distributions and correlations of the word lengths of ten European languages. Our findings indicate that a) the word-length distribution of short words quantified by the mean value and the entropy distinguishes the Uralic (Finnish) corpus from the others, b) the tails at long words, manifested in the high-order moments of the distributions, differentiate the Germanic lang...

This volume brings together twelve empirical studies on ditransitive constructions in Germanic languages and their varieties, past present. Specifically, the includes contributions a wide variety of languages, including English, Dutch, German, but also Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, as well lesser-studied ones such Faroese. While first part focuses diachronic aspects, second showcases synchronic a...