Type Noun Constructions in Slavic, Germanic and Romance Languages: Semantics and Pragmatics on the Move - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110701081 ISBN 13 : 9783110701081

Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2023

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lieselotte Brems, Kristin Davidse, Alena Kolyaseva & Anna Kisiel, Leuven, Belgium; Inga Hennecke & Wiltrud Mihatsch, Tübingen, Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Mouton
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110701081
• ISBN 13: 9783110701081
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 741
• Éditeur: Mihatsch Wiltrud, Hennecke Inga, Kisiel Anna, Kolyaseva Alena, Davidse Kristin, Brems Lieselotte
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible