Non Prototypical Reduplication

Author : Aina Urdze
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110597134

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Non-Prototypical Reduplication by Aina Urdze Pdf

As “reduplication” is a continuously discussed topic in the field of linguistic typology and morphology there is still the need to reach a deeper understanding of reduplicative processes. This volume aims to explore the boundaries of reduplication proper from an outside angle, i.e. by looking into non-prototypical cases which challenge the formal and functional criteria for reduplication proper. The articles selected cover various linguistic areals from Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe. Abbi explores echo formations and reduplicative expressives in Southeast Asia. Anderson presents an in-depth study on various reduplication phenomena in the Munda language family. Nintemann addresses a formal problem of reduplication proper in Bantu languages. Finkbeiner discusses a case of triplication in German, contrasting it with the framework of reduplication. Kallergi & Konstantinidou provide an detailed insight into several kinds of echo formations in Modern Greek, including diachronic aspects. Rozhanskiy’s focus is on unexpected reduplicative patterns found in the formation of Komi ideophones. Stolz delivers a thorough crosslinguistic investigation on reduplicative phenomena, favouring the canonical approach over the prototype method.

Author : Haritini Kallergi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110365597

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Reduplication at the Word Level by Haritini Kallergi Pdf

Contrary to earlier approaches, this study suggests that Modern Greek (MG) is a language that exhibits reduplication, in the form of Total Reduplication (TR). The analysis addresses the morphosyntactic, phonological, semantic and pragmatic aspects of the types of TR in MG, and the constraints and/or preferences of speakers concerning their use. The typology of TR focuses on four cross-linguistically common meanings/functions, identified as the intensive, the contrastive, the distributive and the iterative. Part of the analysis of these functional types is based on data that come from two experiments with native speakers; the one confirms or refines earlier assumptions on to the relation of the above meanings/functions with word classes and semantic features of words; the other clarifies the idea of prosodic unity in TR and sheds light into various aspects of the relation of intonation with the interpretation of TR constructions. Also, the formal and lexical constraints on the use of TR are discussed with respect to the status of TR (particularly, the "grammatical"-"lexical" opposition). In general, TR seems to be a borderline case between grammar and the lexicon and a heterogeneous category, in that it involves grammatical, pragmatic and lexical construction types. However, the constructions in question meet highly specific criteria for their status as TR types and the process is productive and considerably regularized (rule-governed) in MG. In this sense, TR should not be merely taken as a strategy for "emphasis", but should be systematically represented in grammar textbooks.

Author : Caterina Mauri,Ilaria Fiorentini,Eugenio Goria
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258991

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Building Categories in Interaction by Caterina Mauri,Ilaria Fiorentini,Eugenio Goria Pdf

This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective. While most of the early research has focused on how linguistic systems reflect some pre-existing ways of categorizing experience, the contributions included in this volume seek to understand how linguistic resources of various nature (prosodic cues, affixes, constructions, discourse markers, ...) can be ‘put to work’ in order to actively build categories in discourse and in interaction, to achieve social goals. This question is addressed in different ways by researchers from different subfields of linguistics, including psycholinguistics, conversation analysis, linguistic typology and discourse pragmatics, and a major point of innovation is represented in fact by the interdisciplinary nature of the volume and in the systematic search for converging evidence.

Author : Agnieszka Piskorska,Ewa Wałaszewska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443891684

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Applications of Relevance Theory by Agnieszka Piskorska,Ewa Wałaszewska Pdf

The collection of papers discusses various applications of Relevance Theory within several areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis. It covers an array of topics, including the treatment of figurative language, pragmatic markers and lexical pragmatics within Relevance Theory. It also discusses relevance-theoretic analyses of special kinds of discourse, such as discourse emerging from the internet or from psychotherapeutic sessions. The volume will primarily interest relevance theorists and scholars working on the subjects addressed by particular chapters.

Author : Jeffrey P. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108834032

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Expressivity in European Languages by Jeffrey P. Williams Pdf

Providing extensive data on a range of European languages, this book highlights the key role expressivity plays in all language.

Author : Julie Barbour
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110289619

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A Grammar of Neverver by Julie Barbour Pdf

Neverver is an Oceanic language spoken by just over 500 people on the high island of Malekula in Vanuatu. Drawing on an extensive corpus of field recordings collected between 2004 and 2008, the analysis reveals a very interesting phonological system with six prenasalized segments, rich systems of possession, tense/aspect/mood marking, valence change, and verb serialization. The grammar is of interest to specialists in Oceanic and Austronesian linguistics, as well as to general linguists, especially those interested in linguistic typology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004439153

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Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area by Anonim Pdf

This volume provides a first of its kind account of expressives in the region from a grammatical, historical, and literary perspective. It provides case studies from the four major language families of South Asia.

Author : Mikhail Kopotev,Kyongjoon Kwon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783111165806

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Constructions with Lexical Repetitions in East Slavic by Mikhail Kopotev,Kyongjoon Kwon Pdf

Repetition is a well-studied phenomenon in morphology and lexicology but has received less attention on the syntactic level. The book sheds light on syntactic constructions with lexical repetition in East Slavic languages. Several contributions address syntactic constructions that have developed in form and meaning in accordance with general tendencies found in many languages, for example, English Boys will be boys. However, most chapters focus on constructions that resist typological explanation, for example Rus. Беда так беда ‘trouble- nom.sg so trouble- nom.sg’, Ukr. дурень дурнем ‘fool- nom.sg fool- ins.sg’. .

Author : Simone Mattiola
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262585

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Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World by Simone Mattiola Pdf

The aim of this book is to give the first large-scale typological investigation of pluractionality in the languages of the world. Pluractionality is defined as the morphological modification of the verb to express a plurality of situations that can additionally involve a plurality of participants and/or spaces. Based on a 246-language sample, the main characteristics of pluractionality are described and discussed throughout the book. Firstly, a description of the functions that pluractional markers cross-linguistically express is presented and the relationships occurring among them are explained through the semantic map model. Then, the marking strategies that languages display to express such functions are illustrated and some issues concerning the formal identification are briefly discussed as well. The typological generalizations are corroborated showing how pluractional markers work in three specific languages (Akawaio, Beja, Maa). In conclusion, the theoretical conceptualization of pluractionality is discussed referring to the Radical Construction Grammar approach.

Author : Ray Jackendoff
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191571909

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Meaning and the Lexicon by Ray Jackendoff Pdf

Meaning and the Lexicon brings together 35 years of pathbreaking work on language by Ray Jackendoff. It traces the development of his Parallel Architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and semantics are independent generative components, and in which knowledge of language consists of a repertoire of stored structures. Some of these structures, such as words and morphemes, are idiosyncratic mappings between phonology, syntax, and meaning; some, such as idioms, attach meaning to larger syntactic structures; other structures are purely syntactic or morphosyntactic; and yet others are pieces of meaning with no syntactic or phonological form. The Parallel Architecture also seeks to explain and understand how language is integrated with human cognition, particularly with vision. Professor Jackendoff examines inherently meaningful syntactic constructions, incorporating insights from Construction Grammar; and he looks at how aspects of meaning can be unexpressed but nevertheless understood, integrating approaches from Generative Lexicon theory. A recurring focus is the balance in grammar between idiosyncrasy, regularity, and semiregularity. The chapters cover a wide range of phenomena, from well-studied domains such as the mass-count distinction, event structure, resultatives, and noun-noun compounds, to offbeat aspects of English grammar such as the time-away construction (We're twistin' the night away), contrastive focus reduplication (Do you LIKE-him-like him?) and the noun-preposition-noun construction (week after week). Ray Jackendoff draws on work in a wide range of fields, including linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy. His writing combines depth of thought with clarity and wit. Meaning and the Lexicon will be read and enjoyed by linguists of all theoretical persuasions, and will be of great interest to cognitive scientists, philosophers, and anyone interested in how language operates in the mind, brain, and human communication.

Author : Günter Radden,Klaus-Uwe Panther
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110182459

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Studies in Linguistic Motivation by Günter Radden,Klaus-Uwe Panther Pdf

How much of language is motivated? Recently, cognitive and functional linguists have proposed new solutions to this intriguing question. The thirteen articles collected in this volume cover various aspects of motivation in grammar and in the lexicon. The phenomena discussed in the contributions can be grouped into four types of motivation, which, along with other types, are explicated in the introductory chapter: ecological motivation, i.e. motivation of a linguistic unit due to its place, or "ecological niche," within a system; genetic motivation, i.e. motivation of present-day linguistic behavior or structure due to historical factors; experiential motivation, i.e. motivation that is based on embodied experience; and cognitive motivation, i.e. motivation that is based on human knowledge and cognitive operations such as metonymy and metaphor. The languages studied in some detail include Afrikaans, Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Hausa, and Hungarian. This volume makes a strong case for the pervasiveness of motivation in natural language. It will be of interest to teachers, researchers and students of linguistics, especially of functional and cognitive linguistics.

Author : Olivier Bonami,Gilles Boyé ,Georgette Dal ,Hélène Giraudo , Fiammetta Namer
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101108

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The lexeme in descriptive and theoretical morphology by Olivier Bonami,Gilles Boyé ,Georgette Dal ,Hélène Giraudo , Fiammetta Namer Pdf

After being dominant during about a century since its invention by Baudouin de Courtenay at the end of the nineteenth century, morpheme is more and more replaced by lexeme in contemporary descriptive and theoretical morphology. The notion of a lexeme is usually associated with the work of P. H. Matthews (1972, 1974), who characterizes it as a lexical entity abstracting over individual inflected words. Over the last three decades, the lexeme has become a cornerstone of much work in both inflectional morphology and word formation (or, as it is increasingly been called, lexeme formation). The papers in the present volume take stock of the descriptive and theoretical usefulness of the lexeme, but also adress many of the challenges met by classical lexeme-based theories of morphology.

Author : Rita Finkbeiner,Ulrike Freywald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110592498

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Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse by Rita Finkbeiner,Ulrike Freywald Pdf

Most scholars define reduplication as a formally restricted grammatical process, neatly distinguishing it from 'mere' repetition as a discoursal option. However, there is a fuzzy grey area between the two processes that has rarely been explored so far. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of exact repetition, understood broadly as the systematic iteration of one and the same linguistic item within relatively close syntactic proximity, is investigated from a number of angles. The volume contains studies from phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and deals with a broad range of languages, including alleged 'reduplication avoiders'. In bringing together different theoretical perspectives, phenomenological domains, and methodologies, and in linking the fields of syntax and discourse to those of morphology and morphophonology, the volume provides new insights into the structure and meaning of exact repetition phenomena, and, more generally, into their status within a theory of language. The collection will appeal to formally and functionally oriented scholars from all subfields of linguistics, including typology.

Author : Wolfgang U. Dressler,Lavinia M. Barbaresi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110877052

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Morphopragmatics by Wolfgang U. Dressler,Lavinia M. Barbaresi Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131546918

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Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies by Anonim Pdf