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

Fleischman, Suzanne

 
9780521243896: The Future in Thought and Language: Diachronic Evidence from Romance
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521243890 ISBN 13 : 9780521243896
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1982

Synopsis

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.

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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.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1982
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521243890
ISBN 13 
9780521243896
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
230
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Personne responsable
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9780521105705: The Future in Thought and Language: Diachronic Evidence from Romance

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521105706 ISBN 13 :  9780521105705
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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