Complementizer Semantics In European Languages

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Complementizer Semantics In European Languages

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Author : Kasper Boye
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-07-11

Complementizer Semantics In European Languages written by Kasper Boye and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.

Evidential Marking In European Languages

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Author : Björn Wiemer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-03-07

Evidential Marking In European Languages written by Björn Wiemer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

How are evidential functions distinguished by means other than grammatical paradigms, i.e. by function words and other lexical units? And how inventories of such means can be compared across languages (against an account also of grammatical means used to mark information source)? This book presents an attempt at supplying a comparative survey of such inventories by giving detailed “evidential profiles” for a large part of European languages: Continental Germanic, English, French, Basque, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Modern Greek, and Ibero-Romance languages, such as Catalán, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. Each language is treated in a separate chapter, and their profiles are based on a largely unified set of concepts based on function and/or etymological provenance. The profiles are preceded by a chapter which clarifies the theoretical premises and methodological background for the format followed in the profiles. The concluding chapter presents a synthesis of findings from these profiles, including areal biases and the formulation of methodological problems that call for further research.

The Fate Of Mood And Modality In Language Death

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Author : Petar Kehayov
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-07-24

The Fate Of Mood And Modality In Language Death written by Petar Kehayov and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Research into the “grammar of language death” is often biased toward formal processes (e.g. paradigmatic levelling). In this study the author changes the perspective and shows that the relative susceptibility of linguistic elements to loss, change and innovation in language death circumstances can be dependent on meaning and thus organized along semantic notions rather than along structure.

Clausal Complementation In South Slavic

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Author : Björn Wiemer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-11-08

Clausal Complementation In South Slavic written by Björn Wiemer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This volume assembles contributions addressing clausal complementation across the entire South Slavic territory. The main focus is on particular aspects of complementation, covering the contemporary standard languages as well as older stages and/or non-standard varieties and the impact of language contact, primarily with non-Slavic languages. Presenting in-depth studies, they thus contribute to the overarching collective aim of arriving at a comprehensive picture of the patterns of clausal complementation on which South Slavic languages profile against a wider typological background, but also diverge internally if we look closer at details in the contemporary stage and in diachronic development. The volume divides into an introduction setting the stage for the single case-studies, an article developing a general template of complementation with a detailed overview of the components relevant for South Slavic, studies addressing particular structural phenomena from different theoretical viewpoints, and articles focusing on variation in space and/or time.

Complementizers On Edge On The Boundaries Between Syntax And Pragmatics In Ibero Romance

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Author : Anna Kocher
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2022-11-22

Complementizers On Edge On The Boundaries Between Syntax And Pragmatics In Ibero Romance written by Anna Kocher and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the structural and interpretive properties of root-clause complementizers in Ibero-Romance. The driving question the author seeks to answer is where the boundaries between syntax and pragmatics lie in these languages. Contrary to most previous work on these phenomena, the author argues in favor of a relatively strict distribution of labor between the two components of grammar. The first part of the book is devoted to root complementizers with a reportative interpretation. The second part deals with root complementizers and commitment attribution. Finally, the last part presents the results of empirical studies on the topic.

Diachronic Slavonic Syntax

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Author : Björn Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-03-05

Diachronic Slavonic Syntax written by Björn Hansen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

The book is dedicated to the study of the causes and mechanisms of syntactic change in Slavonic languages, including internally motivated syntactic change, syntactic change under contact conditions (structural convergence, pattern replication, shift-induced transfer etc.): It also explores metalinguistic factors such as ideologically driven selection and propagation of syntactic structures.

The Oxford Guide To The Uralic Languages

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Author : Marianne Bakró-Nagy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022

The Oxford Guide To The Uralic Languages written by Marianne Bakró-Nagy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Foreign Language Study categories.

This volume brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide a comprehensive account of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eurasia. It will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in the Uralic languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.

The Oxford Handbook Of Languages Of The Caucasus

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Author : Maria Polinsky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-21

The Oxford Handbook Of Languages Of The Caucasus written by Maria Polinsky and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus is an introduction to and overview of the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Though the languages of the Caucasus have often been mischaracterized or exoticized, many of them have cross-linguistically rare features found in few or no other languages. This handbook presents facts and descriptions of the languages written by experts. The first half of the book is an introduction to the languages, with the linguistic profiles enriched by demographic research about their speakers. It features overviews of the main language families as well as detailed grammatical descriptions of several individual languages. The second half of the book delves more deeply into theoretical analyses of features, such as agreement, ellipsis, and discourse properties, which are found in some languages of the Caucasus. Promising areas for future research are highlighted throughout the handbook, which will be of interest to linguists of all subfields.

Structural And Typological Variation In The Dialects Of Kurdish

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Author : Yaron Matras
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-10-19

Structural And Typological Variation In The Dialects Of Kurdish written by Yaron Matras and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of Kurdish. The contributions draw on data collected as part of the project on Structural and Typological Variation in Kurdish and stored in the Manchester Database of Kurdish Dialects online resource, as well as on additional data sources. The chapters address issues in lexicon, phonology, and morpho-syntax including nominal case, tense and aspect categories, pronominal clitics, adpositions, word order (with special reference to post-predicate constituents) and connectivity and complex clauses. The materials that inform the analysis consist of a systematic questionnaire-based elicitation covering key features of variation in lexicon and morpho-syntax, and an accompanying corpus of free speech recordings, collected in over 120 locations across the Kurdish-speaking regions in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran and covering mainly the dialects of Northern and Central Kurdish (Kurmani-Bahdini and Sorani), with some consideration of Southern Kurdish. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in fields such as linguistics, linguistic typology, Iranian linguistics and linguistics of the Middle East, and dialectology.

The Routledge Handbook Of Eurolinguistics

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Author : Joachim Grzega
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-03-31

The Routledge Handbook Of Eurolinguistics written by Joachim Grzega and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the typical features among European languages in cultural, geographical, or political definitions. Bringing together the latest research in the field, the handbook showcases European traditions of linguistic research on European languages. Featuring 30 chapters written by leading experts of European languages and linguistics, this book: • illustrates the major theoretical and methodological developments and institutionalizations of the field; • presents typical features for the various linguistic levels of European languages (standard and non-standard)—formally and semantically; • analyzes aspects of writing, phonological aspects, grammatical aspects, lexical aspects, language use, and multimodal aspects, including contributions on body language and sign languages; and • investigates typical commonalities with respect to various historical and current social issues with chapters on traditions of translation, multilingual settings in Europe, teaching foreign languages, and language policies. The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics is essential reading for those with an interest in European languages and linguistics, language contact and change, and language typology.