Reciprocals and Semantic Typology
Title | Reciprocals and Semantic Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Evans |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027206791 |
Is there a single, Platonic 'reciprocal' meaning found in all languages, or is there a cluster of related concepts which are nonetheless impossible to characterize in any single way? This title develops and explains techniques for tackling this question. It confronts a general problem facing semantic typology.
Reciprocals and Reflexives
Title | Reciprocals and Reflexives PDF eBook |
Author | Ekkehard König |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 663 |
Release | 2008-11-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110199149 |
This collection of original papers is a representative survey of recent theoretical and cross-linguistic work on reciprocity and reflexivity. Its most remarkable feature is its combination of formal approaches, case studies on individual languages and broad typological surveys in one volume, showing that the interaction of formal approaches to grammar and typology may lead to new insights and results for both fields. Among the major issues addressed in this volume are the following: How can our current knowledge about the space and limits of variation in the relevant domain be captured in a structural typology of reciprocity? What light can such a typology shed on the facts of particular languages or groups of languages (e.g. Austronesian)? How can recent descriptive and typological insights be incorporated into a revised and more adequate version of the Binding Theory? How do verbal semantics, argument structure and reciprocal markers interact? How can we explain the pervasive patterns of ambiguity observable in these two domains, especially the use of the same forms both as reflexive and reciprocal markers? What are the major sources in the historical development of reciprocal markers? This combination of large-scale typological surveys with in-depth studies of particular languages provides new answers to old questions and raises important new questions for future research.
Reciprocals
Title | Reciprocals PDF eBook |
Author | Zygmunt Frajzyngier |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027229403 |
The theoretical issues addressed in the present volume are semantic and cognitive properties of reciprocal events, syntactic properties of reciprocals, and the relationship of reciprocals to other grammatical categories. Several papers discuss the history of reciprocal constructions, offering alternative hypotheses regarding the grammaticalization of reciprocals. The formal, functional, typological and historical approaches in the present volume complement each other, contributing together to the understanding of forms, and syntactic and semantic properties of reciprocal markers. Several papers in the present volume make a double contribution to the problems of reciprocal constructions: they provide new descriptive data and they address theoretical issues at the same time. The languages discussed include: English, Dutch, German, Greek, Polish, Nyulnyulan (Australia), Amharic (Ethio-Semitic), Bilin (Cushitic), Chadic languages, Bantu, Halkomelem (Salishan), Mandarin, Yukaghir and a number of Oceanic languages. The volume also includes a study of grammaticalization of reciprocals and reflexives in African languages.
The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity
Title | The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity PDF eBook |
Author | Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2020-03-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027261687 |
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the syntax and semantics of a single linguistic phenomenon – the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity – in synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. It challenges the assumption common in the typological, syntactic, and semantic literature, namely that so-called reciprocal constructions encode symmetric relations. Instead, they are analyzed as constructions encoding unspecified relations. In effect, it provides a new proposal for the truth-conditional semantics of these constructions. More broadly, this book introduces new ways of bringing together historical linguistics and formal semantics, demonstrating how, on the one hand, the inclusion of historical data concerning the sources of reciprocal constructions enriches their synchronic analysis; and how, on the other hand, an analysis of the syntax and the semantics of these constructions serves as a key for understanding their historical origins.
Semantics - Typology, Diachrony and Processing
Title | Semantics - Typology, Diachrony and Processing PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Heusinger |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 545 |
Release | 2019-02-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110589826 |
Now available in paperback for the first time since its original publication, the material in this book provides a broad, accessible guide to semantic typology, crosslinguistic semantics and diachronic semantics. Coming from a world-leading team of authors, the book also deals with the concept of meaning in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, and the understanding of semantics in computer science. It is packed with highly cited, expert guidance on the key topics in the field, making it a bookshelf essential for linguists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, and computer scientists working on natural language.
Reciprocals and Reflexives
Title | Reciprocals and Reflexives PDF eBook |
Author | Ekkehard König |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 652 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783111731193 |
This collection of original papers presents a survey of recent theoretical and cross-linguistic work on reciprocity and reflexivity, as well as the relationship between these two domains of grammar. It combines formal approaches, case studies on individual languages and broad typological surveys in one volume, showing that the interaction of formal linguistics and typology may lead to new insights and results in both fields.
Loss and Renewal
Title | Loss and Renewal PDF eBook |
Author | Felicity Meakins |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 493 |
Release | 2016-04-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1614518793 |
Felicity Meakins was awarded the Kenneth L. Hale Award 2021 by the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for outstanding work on the documentation of endangered languages Australia is known for its linguistic diversity and extensive contact between languages. This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, marking a new era of linguistic work, and contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages. Analyses of complex and dynamic processes are informed by rich sociolinguistic description.