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Author | : Remus Gergel |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2022-08-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027257671 |
Download Particles in German, English, and Beyond Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview of the complex field, the contributions of the current volume capitalize on, but also work much further beyond the baseline of the established insights. They offer analyses of (a) new data types within and sometimes across several Germanic languages (e.g. varieties/stages of German, Dutch, or Norwegian), encompassing different classes of particles and a variety of syntactic-semantic as well as usage-based aspects; (b) the classical dichotomy between languages like German and English when it comes to the availability of modal particles both synchronically and diachronically; (c) crucial integrated insight from non-Germanic languages such as French, Hungarian, Italian, Mandarin, or Vietnamese. A number of mostly interface-based proposals of several languages as well as further generalizations are put on the table for both expert and novice readers in the field.
Author | : Werner Abraham |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027250227 |
Download Discourse Particles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language. In the narrower meaning of the linguistic term particles can be distinguished between logical, or scalar particles and modal, or pragmatic particles. The semantic, pragmatic and syntactic properties of modal particles differ vastly from those of the scalar particles, on the one hand, and their homonymic counterparts functioning in different syntactic categories, on the other hand. The contributions to this volume offer the latest research on the semantic, pragmatic and syntactic properties of particles in the English and German language.
Author | : Werner Abraham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2020-09-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108861083 |
Download Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression: word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. This state of the art survey proposes a new model of modality, drawing on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic languages to find out what is cross-linguistically universal about modality, and to argue that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.
Author | : Debra Ziegeler |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2024-04-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110785323 |
Download The Influence of the Lexifier Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The study of language contact in the „new" English varieties is frequently influenced by sociolinguistic approaches and reference to substrate languages but much less often to functionally-based contact linguistic theory. In The Influence of the Lexifier, Ziegeler applies grammaticalization and other explanations of language change to many under-researched features of Singapore English, highlighting the role of the co-existing lexifier in the unique contact setting of Singapore.
Author | : Trotzke |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2024-03-21 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 0192872281 |
Download Non Canonical Questions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is the first to present a comprehensive theory of non-canonical questions, those question types that do not (only) request information from the addressee, but rather (additionally) tell us something about the speaker's epistemic and/or emotional state, such as can't-find-the-value questions, echo questions, rhetorical questions, and surprise questions. While much recent research has explored the formal semantics and the phonetics and phonology of both canonical and non-canonical questions, the literature is still lacking a comprehensive account from a syntax-pragmatics perspective that brings together the multiple findings and strands of research from the last twenty years. The standard view in the syntax-pragmatics literature is that most special interpretations of non-canonical questions involve syntactic projections at or even above the level of illocutionary force. In this work, Andreas Trotzke argues that this approach is a mistake, and proposes a new alternative theory of non-canonical questions in which both their special pragmatics and their syntax, as well as in many cases their emotive component, can be derived solely from propositional-level operators that do not affect the illocutionary level of utterances and can be found across illocutionary forces. This account dramatically simplifies the syntactic analysis of non-canonical questions and is also able to capture some previously unobserved data in the discourse behavior of those question types.
Author | : Anna-Maria De Cesare |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 2024-09-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110746387 |
Download Manual of Romance Word Classes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Word classes are linguistic categories serving as basis in the description of the vocabulary and grammar of natural languages. While important publications are regularly devoted to their definition, identification, and classification, in the field of Romance linguistics we lack a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the current research. This Manual offers an updated and detailed discussion of all relevant aspects related to word classes in the Romance languages. In the first part, word classes are discussed from both a theoretical and historical point of view. The second part of the volume takes as its point of departure single word classes, described transversally in all the main Romance languages, while the third observes the relevant word classes from the point of view of specific Romance(-based) varieties. The fourth part explores Romance word classes at the interface of grammar and other fields of research. The Manual is intended as a reference work for all scholars and students interested in the description of both the standard, major Romance languages and the smaller, lesser described Romance(-based) varieties.
Author | : Liesbeth Degand |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2013-11-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027271224 |
Download Discourse Markers and Modal Particles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Discourse markers and modal particles are fuzzy linguistic categories that are difficult to describe. The contributions in this volume go beyond this statement. They discuss the intersection between modal particles and discourse markers and examine whether or not it is possible to draw a line between these two types of linguistic expressions. On the basis of new synchronic and diachronic data, from speech and writing, from European and Asian languages or cross-linguistically, the authors answer the question whether discourse markers and modal particles are distinct categories, whether they form a cline, or whether modal particles are a subcategory of discourse markers. This common question shows up throughout all chapters, which makes the book to a coherent whole. By disentangling the complexity of categorizing multifunctional expressions, this book also sheds new light on the processes of meaning extension. The traditional discourse and modal functions are complemented by interactional and textual ones. A must read for functional linguists.
Author | : Marco García García |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027263485 |
Download Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of linguistic disciplines and perspectives such as language acquisition and language contact, this volume provides a state-of-the-art discussion on central issues of focus realization. These include the interaction between prosody, syntax, and pragmatics, the typology of word order and intonation languages, the differentiation between focus and related notions such as contrast and presupposed modality, and the role of synchronic variation and change. The studies presented in this volume cover a broad range of Romance languages, including French, Italian, Portuguese, and different varieties of Spanish. Moreover, the book also offers new insights into non-Romance languages such as English, German, and Quechua.
Author | : Stefan Sudhoff |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027255342 |
Download Focus Particles in German Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study explores the grammar of focus particles in German. It gives a thorough description and analysis of focus particle constructions and links their syntactic, semantic, and information structural properties to their prosodic characteristics. The study also shows that focus particles present a particularly well-suited subject for the investigation of the modularity of grammar in general. The first part of the book deals with the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of focus particle constructions and results in a modular account of the relation between their word order, information structure, and meaning. The second part presents a corpus study and several speech production and perception experiments investigating the prosodic realization of the constructions. The integration of these two lines of research results in a comprehensive theory of focus particles and of the interaction of grammar and information structure in German.
Author | : Elena Karagjosova |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : German language |
ISBN | : 9783933218179 |
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