Indefinites in Romance and beyond
Indefinites in Romance and beyond

Author: Olga Kellert

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-10-21

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 3985541124

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Due to their flexibility in interpretation, the use of indefinites and other quantificational expressions is highly variable and subject to dynamic processes of language change.The present volume addresses fundamental linguistic questions about language variation and change in Romance quantificational expressions. It focuses on quantificational expressions in language varieties that have not received much attention in the previous literature, such as Old Sardinian, Argentinian Spanish, Palenquero Creole and Cabindan Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, and others. The studies included in this volume offer new data on these processes of variation and advance theoretical discussions about language variation and change.

New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond
New Perspectives on Bare Noun Phrases in Romance and Beyond

Author: Johannes Kabatek

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2013-11-15

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9027271259

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This book envisions the study of bare noun phrases as a field of research in its own right rather than an accessory matter in the wider domain of nominal determination. Combining insights from different theoretical backgrounds and extending the empirical coverage of bare noun phenomena, the ten contributions provide new perspectives on long-standing but still actively debated problems as well as investigations into previously ignored issues. The volume focuses on the wide range of bare noun phenomena in Romance languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Brazilian and European Portuguese, Italian and French; but also widens its inherently comparative perspective to languages such as Bulgarian and Modern Hebrew. The authors discuss the importance of cross-linguistic patterns in the modeling of the syntax and semantics of noun phrases and of common noun denotations, the role of information structure as well as that of discourse traditions and coordination.

Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond
Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond

Author: Miriam Bouzouita

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-10-25

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 311073625X

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Die im Jahre 1905 von Gustav Gröber ins Leben gerufene Reihe der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie zählt zu den renommiertesten Fachpublikationen der Romanistik. Die Beihefte pflegen ein gesamtromanisches Profil, das neben den Nationalsprachen auch die weniger im Fokus stehenden romanischen Sprachen mit einschließt. Zur Begutachtung können eingereicht werden: Monographien und Sammelbände zur Sprachwissenschaft in ihrer ganzen Breite, zur mediävistischen Literaturwissenschaft und zur Editionsphilologie. Mögliche Publikationssprachen sind Französisch, Spanisch, Portugiesisch, Italienisch und Rumänisch sowie Deutsch und Englisch. Sammelbände sollten thematisch und sprachlich in sich möglichst einheitlich gehalten sein.

Beyond Romance
Beyond Romance

Author: M. C. Dillon

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2001-10-11

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780791450970

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Critiques the predominant romantic ideal.

Epistemic Indefinites
Epistemic Indefinites

Author: Luis Alonso-Ovalle

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 019966529X

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This book examines the semantics and pragmatics of determiners or pronouns that signal ignorance on the part of the speaker, such as Spanish algun. It offers novel empirical observations and important theoretical insights on epistemic indefinites and related topics such as modal free relatives, modified numerals, and epistemic modals.

Irregularity in Morphology (and beyond)
Irregularity in Morphology (and beyond)

Author: Thomas Stolz

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-10-22

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 3050059583

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Irregularity is a philological concept which is not adequately defined. The present volume aims to improve the understanding of irregularity within the domain of morphology, relating to inflectional, derivation, and compounding. Studies aim to discover the potential regularity behind irregularities, the fact or hypothesis that regular (sound) change produces irregularity (Sturtevant's Paradox), the nature of paradigms (esp. suppletion and overabundance), and the interplay of irregular morphology with syntax and pragmatics. Perspectives are synchronic and diachronic. A few studies approach irregularity from the psycholinguistic point of view (issues of memory and acquisition). Languages studied include Latin and its daughter languages French, Catalan and Italian, but also English, German, Greek, Russian, Turkish, Thompson Salish, and the Iroquoian languages. Theories discussed include Canonical Typology, Distributed Morphology, Whole Word Morphology, Minimalism, and the Procedural/Declarative Model.

On looking into words (and beyond)
On looking into words (and beyond)

Author: Claire Bowern

Publisher: Language Science Press

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 629

ISBN-13: 3946234925

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While linguistic theory is in continual flux as progress is made in our ability to understand the structure and function of language, one constant has always been the central role of the word. On looking into words is a wide-ranging volume spanning current research into word-based morphology, morphosyntax, the phonology-morphology interface, and related areas of theoretical and empirical linguistics. The 26 papers that constitute this volume extend morphological and grammatical theory to signed as well as spoken language, to diachronic as well as synchronic evidence, and to birdsong as well as human language.

Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article
Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9004437509

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This volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a “partitive article” in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially corresponding bare nouns. It further deals with diachronic issues, such as grammaticalization and evolution in the use of “partitive articles”. The outcome is a snapshot of current research into “partitive articles” and the way they relate to bare nouns, in a cross-linguistic perspective and on new data: the research covers noteworthy data (fieldwork data and corpora) from Standard languages - like French and Italian, but also German - to dialectal and regional varieties, including endangered ones like Francoprovençal.

Studies in Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Grammaticalization, Refunctionalization and Beyond
Studies in Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Grammaticalization, Refunctionalization and Beyond

Author: Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2019-10-23

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 3039215760

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The present volume examines the usefulness of a particular set of concepts and processes of change studying their applicability to a range of linguistic changes in Spanish and Latin that cannot be easily or can only be partially accounted for within the framework of grammaticalization. Rather than challenging the insights of grammaticalization theory, the different contributions to this monograph demonstrate that exaptation, capitalization, refunctionalization and adfunctionalization, as well as changes motivated by rhetorical guidelines, constitute interesting and valuable notions that allow for a better understanding of specific language changes in Spanish and, by extension, of language change in general.