Type Noun Constructions In Slavic Germanic And Romance Languages

Author : Wiltrud Mihatsch,Inga Hennecke,Anna Kisiel,Alena Kolyaseva,Kristin Davidse,Lieselotte Brems
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110701166

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Type Noun Constructions in Slavic, Germanic and Romance Languages by Wiltrud Mihatsch,Inga Hennecke,Anna Kisiel,Alena Kolyaseva,Kristin Davidse,Lieselotte Brems Pdf

This volume is the first dedicated to the comprehensive, in-depth analysis of constructions with nouns like ‘type’ and ‘sort’. It focuses on type noun constructions in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, integrating the different descriptive traditions that had been developed for each language family. As a result, a greater variety of type noun constructions is revealed than in the hitherto more fragmented literature. But attention is also drawn to the cross-linguistic similarity of the new pragmatic meanings, such as ad hoc and approximative categorization, hedging, focus and filler uses, and the new grammatical functions in NPs (e.g. phoric uses), clauses (e.g. adverbial uses) and complex sentences (e.g. quotatives). The volume offers survey chapters of type noun constructions in each language family as well as contributions focusing on specific aspects in one or two languages, such as their grammar, semantics and pragmatics, diachronic development, discursive and sociolinguistic variety. These complementary methodologies elucidate the unique cross-linguistic field of type noun constructions both descriptively and theoretically. Hence, this volume can also serve as a model for similar surveys in other functional domains.

Author : Wiltrud Mihatsch,Inga Hennecke,Anna Kisiel,Alena Kolyaseva,Kristin Davidse,Lieselotte Brems
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110701104

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Type Noun Constructions in Slavic, Germanic and Romance Languages by Wiltrud Mihatsch,Inga Hennecke,Anna Kisiel,Alena Kolyaseva,Kristin Davidse,Lieselotte Brems Pdf

This volume is the first dedicated to the comprehensive, in-depth analysis of constructions with nouns like ‘type’ and ‘sort’. It focuses on type noun constructions in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, integrating the different descriptive traditions that had been developed for each language family. As a result, a greater variety of type noun constructions is revealed than in the hitherto more fragmented literature. But attention is also drawn to the cross-linguistic similarity of the new pragmatic meanings, such as ad hoc and approximative categorization, hedging, focus and filler uses, and the new grammatical functions in NPs (e.g. phoric uses), clauses (e.g. adverbial uses) and complex sentences (e.g. quotatives). The volume offers survey chapters of type noun constructions in each language family as well as contributions focusing on specific aspects in one or two languages, such as their grammar, semantics and pragmatics, diachronic development, discursive and sociolinguistic variety. These complementary methodologies elucidate the unique cross-linguistic field of type noun constructions both descriptively and theoretically. Hence, this volume can also serve as a model for similar surveys in other functional domains.

Author : Salvador Pons Bordería,Shima Salameh Jiménez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248589

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Language Change in the 20th Century by Salvador Pons Bordería,Shima Salameh Jiménez Pdf

Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages examines the distinctive features that set the study of the 20th century apart from preceding periods. With a primary focus on Romance languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, the book advocates for the adoption of innovative methodologies to enhance the nuanced retrieval of research data: the use of speaker’s attitudes questionnaires, apparent time constructions, and S-curves. Additionally, new materials are addressed as diachronic data sources: mass-media recordings from radio and TV, colloquial conversations, and sociolinguistic corpora. Results focus on the evolution of discourse markers, address terms, as well as on the influence of specific processes such as colloquialization or external mechanisms on the language changes developed during this period. In sum, the 20th century is presented in this book as a new strand in diachronic studies, rather than another time span.

Author : Caterina Mauri,Ilaria Fiorentini,Eugenio Goria
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Hélène Vassiliadou,Marie Lammert
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527589094

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A Crosslinguistic Perspective on Clear and Approximate Categorization by Hélène Vassiliadou,Marie Lammert Pdf

In recent decades, research on clear and approximate categorizations and their manifestations in language has been generating a number of studies on syntax, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, philosophy, and logic. This is particularly interesting because these two operations have formally similar realizations even in languages belonging to different groups. The existence of a large number of type nouns testifies to their productivity. If these nouns serve to both categorize and approximate, the fundamental question is that of identifying the processes of interpretation concerned, since there is not always a consensus on interpretation. This book makes it clear that there are different ways to reach the category associated with a word by putting into perspective the issues surrounding the categorization and approximation and by comparing the ways of expression in languages belonging to different language groups. All in all, by investigating syntactic, morphological, and semantic correlations between type noun binominals and other constructions in various languages, this volume will provide an overview of the current state of research on the subject in order to help scholars and students to grasp the meaning and the cognitive foundations of approximation and categorization. The functioning of each language might clarify the links between categorization and approximation, two often opposed, yet essentially indissociable, operations.

Author : R. J. C. Smits
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110882704

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Eurogrammar by R. J. C. Smits Pdf

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Author : Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401209847

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The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic by Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff Pdf

This book is a comprehensive study of the Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic. It includes an investigation of all Germanic words that were borrowed into Proto-Slavic until its disintegration in the early ninth century. Research into the phonology, morphology and semantics of the loanwords serves as the basis of an investigation into the Germanic donor languages of the individual loanwords. The loanwords can be shown to be mainly of Gothic, High German and Low German origin. One of the aims of the present study is to clarify the accentuation of Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic and to explain how they were adapted to the Proto-Slavic accentual system. This volume is of special interest to scholars and students of Slavic and Germanic historical linguistics, contact linguistics and Slavic accentology. Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff’s research focuses on Slavic historical linguistics and language contact between Slavic and Germanic. She studied Slavic languages and cultures and Comparative Indo-European linguistics at Leiden University, where she also obtained her doctoral degree. She currently lives in Zagreb, where she contributed to the Croatian-Dutch dictionary (Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics), and now contributes to the Croatian Church Slavic dictionary (Old Church Slavonic Institute).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015079657295

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCSC:32106018952587

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Language and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Stolz,Cornelia Stroh,Aina Urdze
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197648

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

This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. Three types of languages are identified according to the morphological treatment of the comitative and its syncretistic association with other concepts. It is shown that the structural behaviour of comitatives is areally biassed and that the languages of Europe tend to diverge from the majority of the world's languages. This has important repercussions for a language-independent definition of the comitative. The supposed conceptual closeness of comitative and instrumental is discussed in some detail and a semantic map of the comitative is put forward. Markedness is the crucial concept for the evaluation of the relation that ties comitatives and instrumentals to each other. In a separate chapter, the diachrony of comitatives is looked into from the perspective of grammaticalisation research. Throughout the book, the argumentation is richly documented by empirical data. The book contains three case-studies of the comitative in Icelandic, Latvian and Maltese - each of which represents one of the three language types identified earlier in the text. For the purpose of comparing the languages of Europe, a chapter is devoted to the analysis of a large parallel literary corpus (covering 64 languages) which reveals that the parameters of genetic affiliation, areal location and typological classification interact in intricate ways when it comes to predicting whether or not two languages of the sample behave similarly as to the use to which they put their comitative morphemes. With a view to determining the degree of similarity between the languages of the European sub-sample, methods of quantitative typology are employed. General linguists with an interest in case, functional typologists, grammaticalisation researchers and experts of markedness issues will value this book as an important contribution to their respective fields of interest. We regret that, due to a PDF problem, the figure on page 111 is partly shown in black. Please find the correct table here.

Author : R. E. Asher,J. M. Y. Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCSC:32106019315800

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The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics by R. E. Asher,J. M. Y. Simpson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Semitic philology
ISBN : UOM:39015061946342

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Israel Oriental Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gideon Goldenberg
Publisher : Magnes Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015043271132

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Studies in Semitic Linguistics by Gideon Goldenberg Pdf

Collected in this volume are articles published over the last three decades, which deal with various aspects of Semitic languages in general, the structure of Hebrew, history of Arab grammatical tradition, Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic, Syriac syntax, and particularly with Ethiopian languages (Amharic and Old Amharic Gurage, Harari and Comparative Ethiopian). While discussing general, language-specific and comparative issues, special attention is devoted in these studies to syntax, to the examination of linguistic methodology and to the contribution of Semitics to the Science of language.

Author : Lars-Olof Delsing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Scandinavian languages
ISBN : UOM:39015032931415

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The Internal Structure of Noun Phrases in the Scandinavian Languages by Lars-Olof Delsing Pdf

Author : Linguistic Society of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : IND:30000085225609

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Meeting Handbook by Linguistic Society of America Pdf