Impersonals And Other Agent Defocusing Constructions In French
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Impersonals And Other Agent Defocusing Constructions In French
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Author : Michel Achard
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2015-01-14
Impersonals And Other Agent Defocusing Constructions In French written by Michel Achard and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book investigates French impersonals as a functional category. Any structure whose agent is defocused and whose predicate describes a situation stable enough to be generally available should be considered impersonal. In addition to il impersonals, the category also includes demonstrative (ce/ça), middle (se), and indefinite (on) structures. These different forms belong to the same functional category because they systematically code general and predictable events that cannot be imputed to a specific cause. Because generality and predictability are gradual notions, impersonals can only be identified within the context of specific constructional islands which therefore constitute the organizing principle of the French impersonal category. Conducted in Cognitive Grammar, the analysis follows the functional tradition in expanding the scope of French impersonals beyond il constructions, but also proposes a way of precisely delineating the category. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in impersonal constructions and French linguistics.
Non Prototypical Clefts In French
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Author : Lena Karssenberg
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-09-24
Non Prototypical Clefts In French written by Lena Karssenberg 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 2018-09-24 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This monograph is the first large-scale corpus analysis of French il y a clefts. While most research on clefts focusses on the English ‘prototypical’ it-cleft and its equivalents across languages, this study examines the lesser-known il y a clefts – of both presentational-eventive and specificational type – and provides an in-depth analysis of their syntactic, semantic and discourse-functional properties. In addition to an extensive literature review and a comparison with Italian c’è clefts and with French c’est clefts, the strength of the study lies in the critical approach it develops to the common definition of clefts. Several commonly used criteria for clefts are applied to the corpus data, revealing that these criteria often lead to ambiguous results. The reasons for this ambiguity are explored, thus leading to a better understanding of what constitutes a cleft. In this sense, the analysis will be of interest to specialists of Romance and non-Romance clefts alike.
The Mihi Est Construction
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Author : Mihaela Ilioaia
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-12-18
The Mihi Est Construction written by Mihaela Ilioaia 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 2023-12-18 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book examines the Romanian mihi est construction (Mi-e foame/frică, me.dat = is hunger/fear ‘I am hungry/ afraid’). While it disappeared from all other Romance languages to be replaced with a habeo structure, the mihi est pattern is in Romanian the most common way of expressing psychological or physiological states. By means of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, the book investigates the status of the core arguments of the mihi est structure, i.e. the dative experiencer and the nominative state noun, as well as its evolution throughout the centuries. The data analysis reveals that the dative experiencer syntactically behaves like nominative subjects, whereas the state noun shows predicate behavior. As for the evolution of the mihi est structure, the analysis shows a certain tendency toward innovation, since in present-day Romanian it can coerce nouns coming from other semantic fields into the construction’s psychological or physiological interpretation. Could this be another unique trait of Romanian, which causes it to seemingly go against the tendency of most Romance languages toward canonical marking of core arguments?
Referring To Discourse Participants In Ibero Romance Languages
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Author : Pekka Posio
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2023-09-29
Referring To Discourse Participants In Ibero Romance Languages written by Pekka Posio 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 2023-09-29 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This volume brings together contributions by researchers focusing on personal pronouns in Ibero-Romance languages, going beyond the well-established variable of expressed vs. non-expressed subjects. While factors such as agreement morphology, topic shift and contrast or emphasis have been argued to account for variable subject expression, several corpus studies on Ibero-Romance languages have shown that the expression of subject pronouns goes beyond these traditionally established factors and is also subject to considerable dialectal variation. One of the factors affecting choice and expression of personal pronouns or other referential devices is whether the construction is used personally or impersonally. The use and emergence of new impersonal constructions, eventually also new (im)personal pronouns, as well as the variation found in the expression of human impersonality in different Ibero-Romance language varieties is another interesting research area that has gained ground in the recent years. In addition to variable subject expression, similar methods and theoretical approaches have been applied to study the expression of objects. Finally, the reference to the addressee(s) using different address pronouns and other address forms is an important field of study that is closely connected to the variable expression of pronouns. The present book sheds light on all these aspects of reference to discourse participants. The volume contains contributions with a strong empirical background and various methods and both written and spoken corpus data from Ibero-Romance languages. The focus on discourse participants highlights the special properties of first and second person referents and the factors affecting them that are often different from the anaphoric third person. The chapters are organized into three thematic sections: (i) Variable expression of subjects and objects, (ii) Between personal and impersonal, and (iii) Reference to the addressee.
Impersonal Constructions
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Author : Andrej Malchukov
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011-07-20
Impersonal Constructions written by Andrej Malchukov and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a referential subject. The contributions to this volume deal with all types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates (A-impersonals), presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality (T-impersonals), and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties (R-impersonals), i.e. both meteo-constructions and man-constructions. The typological discussion benefits from a good coverage of impersonality in European languages, but also includes considerations of several African, American, South-East Asian, Australian, and Oceanic languages. The variation in the cross-linguistic realization of impersonality and the diachronic pathways leading to and from impersonality documented in this volume point to a novel perspective on impersonals as transitional structures or an intermediate stage of a more basic diachronic change be it from transitive to intransitive, or from active to passive, or participant-to event-centered construction.
Constructions In French
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Author : Myriam Bouveret
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2012
Constructions In French written by Myriam Bouveret and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The book Constructions in French is the first collected volume to focus on French syntax from a constructionist perspective. It has been written with two kinds of readers in mind: for readers interested in the relationship between the French linguistic tradition and cognitive linguistics, and for readers who would like to examine how constructional analysis can be applied to a variety of French language phenomena. The eleven papers illustrate the insights generated by combining lexicalist and constructionist approaches, focusing on syntax as a dynamic system and using corpus data from a variety of speech genres. The contributions provide new findings about French usage trends (in linguistics and in psycholinguistics), including insights into new, nonstandard and poorly studied constructions.
The Oxford Guide To The Romance Languages
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Author : Adam Ledgeway
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
The Oxford Guide To The Romance Languages written by Adam Ledgeway 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 2016 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages is the most exhaustive treatment of the Romance languages available today. Leading international scholars adopt a variety of theoretical frameworks and approaches to offer a detailed structural examination of all the individual Romance varieties and Romance-speaking areas, including standard, non-standard, dialectal, and regional varieties of the Old and New Worlds. The book also offers a comprehensive comparative account of major topics, issues, and case studies across different areas of the grammar of the Romance languages. The volume is organized into 10 thematic parts: Parts 1 and 2 deal with the making of the Romance languages and their typology and classification, respectively; Part 3 is devoted to individual structural overviews of Romance languages, dialects, and linguistic areas, while Part 4 provides comparative overviews of Romance phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. Chapters in Parts 5-9 examine issues in Romance phonology, morphology, syntax, syntax and semantics, and pragmatics and discourse, respectively, while the final part contains case studies of topics in the nominal group, verbal group, and the clause. The book will be an essential resource for both Romance specialists and everyone with an interest in Indo-European and comparative linguistics.
Subjects In Constructions Canonical And Non Canonical
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Author : Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2015-01-14
Subjects In Constructions Canonical And Non Canonical written by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume analyzes constructions with non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, drawing on insights from cognitive and discourse-functional linguistics. Prototypical subjects have often been characterized in terms of their semantic, syntactic and discourse features, such as animacy, agentivity, topicality, referentiality, definiteness and autonomy of existence of the subject referent. A non-canonical subject is one that lacks some of these features. This may be reflected in its meaning, grammatical coding, and/or discourse function. In discussing non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, the chapters in the volume address the following more general topics: What kinds of grammatical, semantic and discourse criteria can be used to distinguish subjects from non-subjects? To what extent are subject criteria construction-specific? What kinds of constructions have non-canonical subjects? What are the semantic and discourse functions of constructions with non-canonical subjects? Are subjects which are grammatically non-canonical also atypical in terms of their discourse features?
Fachbewusstsein Der Romanistik
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Author : Lidia Becker
language : de
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date : 2020-12-14
Fachbewusstsein Der Romanistik written by Lidia Becker and has been published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Die Beiträge des XXXII. Romanistischen Kolloquiums haben die Reflexion über den aktuellen Stand und die Perspektiven des Faches Romanistik an deutschsprachigen Universitäten zum Gegenstand. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden methodologische und forschungstheoretische Überlegungen im Spannungsfeld zwischen dem Fortbestehen der traditionsbewussten vergleichenden Vollromanistik, einer zunehmenden Aufspaltung in romanistische Einzelphilologien und der Anknüpfung an die allgemeine, germanistische und anglistische Linguistik. Eine Reihe von hochschuldidaktischen Impulsbeiträgen beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Lehrinhalte für das moderne romanistische Lehramtsstudium relevant sind. Plädoyers für die Orientierung an den romanistischen Kernkompetenzen der Interkulturalität, Mehrsprachigkeit, Interdisziplinarität und Verantwortungsethik runden den Band ab.
Makrokonstruktionen
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Author : Oliver Ehmer
language : de
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-10-03
Makrokonstruktionen written by Oliver Ehmer 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 2022-10-03 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Die Studie untersucht Adverbialstrukturen im gesprochenen Französisch, die drei oder mehr Diskursabschnitte in komplexer Weise miteinander verbinden. Diese Strukturen werden als Makrokonstruktionen im Sinne der Konstruktionsgrammatik modelliert und anhand eines umfangreichen Korpus hinsichtlich ihrer lokalen Emergenz in der Interaktion und ihrer Sedimentierung analysiert. Dabei werden syntaktische, semantische, prosodische und interaktional-pragmatische Aspekte einbezogen.
