The Future in Thought and Language: Diachronic Evidence from Romance - Couverture souple

Fleischman, Suzanne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521105706 ISBN 13 : 9780521105705

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Questions about the development of the Romance future have engaged scholars since Thielmann's classic statement of 1885.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Questions about the development of the Romance future have engaged scholars since Thielmann's classic statement of 1885, yet a century later a number of the fundamental issues remain unresolved. Professor Fleischman suggests that this is in part due to the narrow sense in which the question has traditionally been formulated - as simply the history of the `future-tense' slot in the grammar - and in part the result of the investigative approach, which until recently has taken little account of important advances in general linguistics in the field of diachronic syntax. The present volume examines 'future' as a conceptual category and discusses the various strategies that have been used to map this conceptual category on to grammar in Romance. The data are taken in the main from Western Romance languages, particularly French, and frequent parallels are drawn with English. To account for the evolution of the future, Professor Fleischman proposes a network of interrelated, often cyclical developments in syntax and semantics, and seeks to place the individual diachronic events within a broader framework of syntactic typology and universal patterns of word-order change.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521105706
• ISBN 13: 9780521105705
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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