Complex Adpositions In European Languages

Author : Benjamin Fagard,José Pinto de Lima,Dejan Stosic,Elena Smirnova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 410 pages
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Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110686647

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Complex Adpositions in European Languages by Benjamin Fagard,José Pinto de Lima,Dejan Stosic,Elena Smirnova Pdf

While much attention has been devoted to simple nominal relators, especially prepositions and case markers, complex nominal relators have not yet been the focus of a systematic and cross-linguistic study. The chapters of this volume provide not only a working definition of such constructions, but also a description of complex adpositions and other complex nominal relators in a variety of European languages, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European, including some languages for which this phenomenon had received little attention, such as Breton and Albanian. Building on synchronic and diachronic corpus-based investigations, the authors show commonalities and specificities of these linguistic items across languages, trying to explain why and how they emerged. The research presented in this volume confirms the wide-spread use of complex adpositions in Europe, and the data reviewed in the final discussion suggests it might be the same in other parts of the world, as well. This book thus offers not only detailed descriptions of complex nominal relators in fifteen languages, but also indications of what to look for in other languages, and how to distinguish between a syntactically free sequence and a genuine complex nominal relator.

Author : Benjamin Fagard,José Pinto de Lima,Dejan Stosic,Elena Smirnova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110686791

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Complex Adpositions in European Languages by Benjamin Fagard,José Pinto de Lima,Dejan Stosic,Elena Smirnova Pdf

While much attention has been devoted to simple nominal relators, especially prepositions and case markers, complex nominal relators have not yet been the focus of a systematic and cross-linguistic study. The chapters of this volume provide not only a working definition of such constructions, but also a description of complex adpositions and other complex nominal relators in a variety of European languages, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European, including some languages for which this phenomenon had received little attention, such as Breton and Albanian. Building on synchronic and diachronic corpus-based investigations, the authors show commonalities and specificities of these linguistic items across languages, trying to explain why and how they emerged. The research presented in this volume confirms the wide-spread use of complex adpositions in Europe, and the data reviewed in the final discussion suggests it might be the same in other parts of the world, as well. This book thus offers not only detailed descriptions of complex nominal relators in fifteen languages, but also indications of what to look for in other languages, and how to distinguish between a syntactically free sequence and a genuine complex nominal relator.

Author : Thomas Hoelbeek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004314580

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The Evolution of Complex Spatial Expressions within the Romance Family by Thomas Hoelbeek Pdf

In this book, Thomas Hoelbeek offers a corpus-based historical study of a group of expressions containing the French noun travers or the Italian noun traverso, previously never analysed from a diachronic perspective.

Author : Dennis Kurzon,Silvia Adler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290243

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Adpositions by Dennis Kurzon,Silvia Adler Pdf

This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation – prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too. The main languages dealt with in the collection are English, French and Hebrew, but there are articles devoted to other languages including Korean, Turkic languages, Armenian, Russian and Ukrainian. Adpositions are treated by some authors from a semantic perspective, by others as syntactic units, and a third group of authors distinguishes adpositions from the point of view of their pragmatic function. This work is of interest to students and researchers in theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as to those who have a special interest in any of the languages treated.

Author : William Frawley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 2198 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195139778

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International Encyclopedia of Linguistics by William Frawley Pdf

This updated edition contains over 900 articles, which provide a detailed overview of theory and research in all branches of linguistics. Every known language is covered and each article is followed by a detailed bibliography.

Author : Sebastian Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134237272

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Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions by Sebastian Hoffmann Pdf

What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve? How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What is the connection between language use and language structure? This book aims to help answer such questions by presenting a detailed analysis of English complex prepositions (e.g. in spite of or with respect to) on the basis of large amounts of authentic language data dating from the Middle Ages until today.

Author : Claude Hagège
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191573460

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Adpositions by Claude Hagège Pdf

This pioneering study is based on an analysis of over 200 languages, including African, Amerindian, Australian, Austronesian, Indo-European and Eurasian (Altaic, Caucasian, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Dravidian, Uralic), Papuan, and Sino-Tibetan. Adpositions are an almost universal part of speech. English has prepositions; some languages, such as Japanese, have postpositions; others have both; and yet others kinds that are not quite either. As grammatical tools they mark the relationship between two parts of a sentence: characteristically one element governs a noun or noun-like word or phrase while the other functions as a predicate. From the syntactic point of view, the complement of an adposition depends on a head: in this last sentence, for example, a head is the complement of on while on a head depends on depends and on is the marker of this dependency. Adpositions lie at the core of the grammar of most languages, their usefulness making them recurrent in everyday speech and writing. Claude Hagège examines their morphological features, syntactic functions, and semantic and cognitive properties. He does so for the subsets both of adpositions that express the relations of agent, patient, and beneficiary, and of those which mark space, time, accompaniment, or instrument. Adpositions often govern case and are sometimes gradually grammaticalized into case. The author considers the whole set of function markers, including case, that appear as adpositions and, in doing so, throws light on processes of morphological and syntactic change in different languages and language families. His book will be welcomed by typologists and by syntacticians and morphologists of all theoretical stripes.

Author : Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Bernd Heine
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027277619

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Approaches to Grammaticalization by Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Bernd Heine Pdf

The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the genesis, development, and organization of grammatical categories in a number of language world-wide, with particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues. The papers in Volume I are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method, and the second with issues of directionality. Those in Volume II are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization.

Author : Corine Astesano,Mélanie Jucla
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135099541

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Neuropsycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Cognition by Corine Astesano,Mélanie Jucla Pdf

This book brings together experts from the fields of linguistics, psychology and neuroscience to explore how a multidisciplinary approach can impact on research into the neurocognition of language. International contributors present cutting-edge research from cognitive and developmental psychology, neuropsychology, psycholinguistics and computer science, and discuss how this contributes to neuropsycholinguistics, a term coined by Jean-Luc Nespoulous, to whom this book is dedicated. Chapters illustrate how researchers with different methods and theoretical backgrounds can contribute to a unified vision of the study of language cognition. Reinterpreting neuropsycholinguistics through the lens of each research field, the book demonstrates important attempts to adopt a comprehensive view of speech and language pathology. Divided into three sections the book covers: linguistic mechanisms and the architecture of language the relationship between language and other cognitive processes the assessment of speech and language disabilities and compensatory mechanisms. Neuropsycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Cognition presents a unique contribution to cognitive science and language science, from linguistics to neuroscience. It will interest academics and scholars in the field, as well as medical researchers, psychologists, and speech and language therapists.

Author : Anna Siewierska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110812206

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Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe by Anna Siewierska Pdf

Author : Sara Pacchiarotti,Fernando Zuniga
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110778021

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Applicative Morphology by Sara Pacchiarotti,Fernando Zuniga Pdf

This book is about recurrent functions of applicative morphology not included in typologically-oriented definitions. Based on substantial cross-linguistic evidence, it challenges received wisdom on applicatives in several ways. First, in many of the surveyed languages, applicatives are the sole means to introduce a non-Actor semantic role into a clause. When there is an alternative way of expression, the applicative counterpart often has no valence-increasing effect on the targeted root. Second, applicative morphology can introduce constituents which are not syntactic objects and/or co-occur with obliques. Third, functions such as conveying aspectual nuances to the predicate (intensity, repetition, habituality) or its arguments (partitive P, highly individuated P), narrow-focusing constituents, and functioning as category-changing devices are attested in geographically distant and genetically unrelated languages. Further, this volume reveals that spatial-related morphology is prone to developing applicative functions in disparate languages and phyla. Finally, several contributions discuss the diachrony of applicative constructions and their (non-syntactic) attested functions, including a case of applicatives-in-the-making.

Author : Johan van der Auwera
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110802610

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Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe by Johan van der Auwera Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Östen Dahl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197099

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Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe by Östen Dahl Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Thomas Stolz,Cornelia Stroh,Aina Urdze
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110185874

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On Comitatives and Related Categories by Thomas Stolz,Cornelia Stroh,Aina Urdze Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : Cecelia Cutler,Zvjezdana Vrzić,Philipp Angermeyer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265449

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Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas by Cecelia Cutler,Zvjezdana Vrzić,Philipp Angermeyer Pdf

Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis. In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the role of historical, cultural and demographic factors in language contact situations. John Victor Singler’s body of work, a model of what such a research paradigm should look like, strikes a careful balance between sociohistorical and linguistic analysis. The case studies in this volume present investigations into the sociohistorical matrix of language contact and critical insights into the sociolinguistic consequences of language contact within Africa and the African Diaspora. Additionally, they contribute to ongoing debates about pidgin/creole genesis and language contact by examining and comparing analyses and linguistic outcomes of particular sociohistorical and cultural contexts, and considering less-studied factors such as speaker agency and identity in the emergence, nativization, and stabilization of contact varieties.