The Mihi Est Construction

Author : Mihaela Ilioaia
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 356 pages
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Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783111055466

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The MIHI EST construction by Mihaela Ilioaia Pdf

This book examines the Romanian mihi est construction (Mi-e foame/frică, me.dat = is hunger/fear ‘I am hungry/ afraid’). While it disappeared from all other Romance languages to be replaced with a habeo structure, the mihi est pattern is in Romanian the most common way of expressing psychological or physiological states. By means of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, the book investigates the status of the core arguments of the mihi est structure, i.e. the dative experiencer and the nominative state noun, as well as its evolution throughout the centuries. The data analysis reveals that the dative experiencer syntactically behaves like nominative subjects, whereas the state noun shows predicate behavior. As for the evolution of the mihi est structure, the analysis shows a certain tendency toward innovation, since in present-day Romanian it can coerce nouns coming from other semantic fields into the construction’s psychological or physiological interpretation. Could this be another unique trait of Romanian, which causes it to seemingly go against the tendency of most Romance languages toward canonical marking of core arguments?

Author : Brigitte Bauer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110825992

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Archaic Syntax in Indo-European by Brigitte Bauer 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 building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. 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.

Author : Mihaela Ilioaia
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783111055626

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The MIHI EST construction by Mihaela Ilioaia Pdf

This book examines the Romanian mihi est construction (Mi-e foame/frică, me.dat = is hunger/fear ‘I am hungry/ afraid’). While it disappeared from all other Romance languages to be replaced with a habeo structure, the mihi est pattern is in Romanian the most common way of expressing psychological or physiological states. By means of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, the book investigates the status of the core arguments of the mihi est structure, i.e. the dative experiencer and the nominative state noun, as well as its evolution throughout the centuries. The data analysis reveals that the dative experiencer syntactically behaves like nominative subjects, whereas the state noun shows predicate behavior. As for the evolution of the mihi est structure, the analysis shows a certain tendency toward innovation, since in present-day Romanian it can coerce nouns coming from other semantic fields into the construction’s psychological or physiological interpretation. Could this be another unique trait of Romanian, which causes it to seemingly go against the tendency of most Romance languages toward canonical marking of core arguments?

Author : Philip Baldi,Pierluigi Cuzzolin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110207545

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New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax by Philip Baldi,Pierluigi Cuzzolin 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 building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. 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.

Author : Klaus T. Schmidt,Werner Winther
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788763536493

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Tocharian and Indo-European Studies vol.12 by Klaus T. Schmidt,Werner Winther Pdf

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies is an international scholarly journal dedicated to the study of two closely related Indo-European languages, Tocharian A and B, attested in Central Asian manuscripts from the second half of the first millennium AD. This volume contains 11 articles by some of the world's leading specialists on Tocharian, as well as reviews of the most important publications in the field. The important article by Werner Winter was one of the last to be written by this outstanding scholar.

Author : Andrii Danylenko,Motoki Nomachi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110639223

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Slavic on the Language Map of Europe by Andrii Danylenko,Motoki Nomachi Pdf

Conceptually, the volume focuses on the relationship of the three key notions that essentially triggered the inception and subsequent realization of this project, to wit, language contact, grammaticalization, and areal grouping. Fully concentrated on the areal-typological and historical dimensions of Slavic, the volume offers new insights into a number of theoretical issues, including language contact, grammaticalization, mechanisms of borrowing, the relationship between areal, genetic, and typological sampling, conservative features versus innovation, and socio-linguistic aspects of linguistic alliances conceived of both synchronically and diachronically. The volume integrates new approaches towards the areal-typological profiling of Slavic as a member of several linguistic areas within Europe, including SAE, the Balkan Sprachbund and Central European groupings(s) like the Danubian or Carpathian areas, as well as the Carpathian-Balkan linguistic macroarea. Some of the chapters focus on structural affinities between Slavic and other European languages that arose as a result of either grammatical replication or borrowing. A special emphasis is placed on contact-induced grammaticalization in Slavic micro-languages

Author : Jóhanna Barðdal,Na'ama Pat-El,Stephen Mark Carey
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263513

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Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects by Jóhanna Barðdal,Na'ama Pat-El,Stephen Mark Carey Pdf

Interest in non-canonically case-marked subjects has been unceasing since the groundbreaking work of Andrews and Masica in the late 70’s who were the first to document the existence of syntactic subjects in another morphological case than the nominative. Their research was focused on Icelandic and South-Asian languages, respectively, and since then, oblique subjects have been reported for language after language throughout the world. This newfangled recognition of the concept of oblique subjects at the time was followed by discussions of the role and validity of subject tests, discussions of the verbal semantics involved, as well as discussions of the theoretical implications of this case marking strategy of syntactic subjects. This volume contributes to all these debates, making available research articles on different languages and language families, additionally highlighting issues like language contact, differential subject marking and the origin of oblique subjects.

Author : Philip Baldi,Pierluigi Cuzzolin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110215465

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Constituent Syntax: Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora by Philip Baldi,Pierluigi Cuzzolin Pdf

New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Constituent Syntax (Quantification, Numerals, Possession, Anaphora) is the third of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. Essentially an extension of Volume 2, Volume 3 concentrates on additional subsentential syntactic phenomena and their long-term evolution from the earliest texts up to the Late Latin period. Included in Volume 3 are detailed treatments of quantification, numerals, possession, and deixis/anaphora. As in the other volumes, the non-technical style and extensive illustration with classical examples makes the content readable and immediately useful to the widest audience. Key features first publication to investigates the long-term syntactic history of Latin generally accessible to linguists and non-linguists theoretically coherent, formulated in functional-typological terms does not require reading fluency in Latin, since all examples are translated into English

Author : Jadranka Gvozdanovic
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110813753

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Language Change and Functional Explanations by Jadranka Gvozdanovic 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 building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. 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.

Author : József Herman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282026

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Linguistic Studies on Latin by József Herman Pdf

The volume contains 26 articles (17 in English, 9 in French), selected from the papers presented at the 6th International Colloquim on Latin Linguistics, organized in Budapest. The authors share a common interest in applying to the study of Latin the conceptual framework of contemporary linguistics, mainly, but not exclusively, the theoretical tools of functional grammar and of the newest trends in pragmatics. Most studies envisage Latin in its synchronic functioning, but some papers embrace diachronic processes, from the archaic period to late and even pre-Romance stages. The volume is divided in several sections: “Phonology and Morpho-syntax” includes one paper on phonology (Fr. Biville) and three on morphology (G.C.L.M. Bakkum, G. Haverling, P. Manuel Suárez). Problems of the syntax of the simple sentence, often in relation to word order phenomena, are discussed in seven articles in Section 2 (Ch. Elerick, H. Fugier, Jan R. de Jong, Marius Lavency, E. Rizzi and P. Molinelli, Hannah Rosén, M.H. Somers). The grammatical problems of the complex sentence were examined by a great many participants of the colloquium, and the third section, “Subordination”, presents eight of those papers (Gu. Calboli, P. De Carvalho, P. Cuzzolin, J. Dangel, S. Mellet, J.A.H. Mensink, P. Ramat, E. Vester). The section on text cohesion and particles — an almost traditional field of research in new Latin linguistics — includes papers by A.M. Bolkestein, C. Kroon, R. Risselada, and M.E. Torrego. The final section, “Problems of the Lexicon”, devoted to the historical-comparative or semantic descriptive analysis of lexical elements, contains four articles (R. Coleman, B. García Hernández, L. Nadjo, Chr. Touratier). An Index of Names closes the volume.

Author : Guillaume Jacques
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 1596 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103058

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A grammar of Japhug by Guillaume Jacques Pdf

Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba district, Sichuan province, China. This grammar is the result of nearly 20 years of fieldwork on one variety of Japhug, based on a corpus of narratives and conversations, a large part of which is available from the Pangloss Collection. It covers the whole grammar of the language, and the text examples provide a unique insight into Gyalrong culture. It was written with a general linguistics audience in mind, and should prove useful not only to specialists of Trans-Himalayan historical linguistics and typologists, but also to anthropologists doing research in Gyalrong areas. It is also hoped that some readers will use it to learn Japhug and pursue research on this fascinating language in the future.

Author : Fabrice Cavoto
Publisher : Lincom
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015055809753

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The Linguist's Linguist by Fabrice Cavoto Pdf

Author : Mara Frascarelli
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : 9782296546592

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Structures and Meanings by Mara Frascarelli Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Dangel
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042908971

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De lingua Latina novae quaestiones by Jacqueline Dangel Pdf

Présente des communications de linguistique latine, de nature diverse et faisant appel à des méthodes inspirées par différentes écoles linguistiques. Elles sont ordonnées selon 5 grands thèmes : phonétique et morphologie, syntaxe et pragmatique, lexicologie et sémantique, stylistique et métrique, histoire de la langue.

Author : William Bingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Latin language
ISBN : UCAL:$B252387

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A Grammar of the Latin Language by William Bingham Pdf