Prototypical Transitivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prototypical Transitivity write by Åshild Næss. This book was released on 2007. Prototypical Transitivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a functional analysis of a notion which has gained considerable importance in cognitive and functional linguistics over the last couple of decades, namely 'prototypical transitivity'. It discusses what prototypical transitivity is, why it should exist, and how it should be defined, as well as how this definition can be employed in the analysis of a number of phenomena of language, such as case-marking, experiencer constructions, and so-called ambitransitives. Also discussed is how a prototype analysis relates to other approaches to transitivity, such as that based on markedness. The basic claim is that transitivity is iconic: a construction with two distinct, independent arguments is prototypically used to refer to an event with two distinct, independent participants. From this principle, a unified account of the properties typically associated with transitivity can be derived, and an explanation for why these properties tend to correlate across languages can be given.
Prototypical Argumentative Patterns
Prototypical Argumentative Patterns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prototypical Argumentative Patterns write by Frans H. van Eemeren. This book was released on 2017-08-14. Prototypical Argumentative Patterns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prototypical Argumentative Patterns reports about a research project started at the University of Amsterdam in 2012. In this project distinctive argumentative patterns have been identified in argumentative discourse in the political, the legal and the medical domain. These patterns consist of constellations of argumentative moves in which, in order to deal with a particular kind of difference of opinion, in defence of a particular type of standpoint, a particular argument scheme or combination of argument schemes is used in a particular kind of argumentation structure. The composition of these prototypical argumentative patterns can be explained by referring to the institutional characteristics of the communicative activity types in which they occur. By exploring the relationship between argumentative discourse and the institutional context, Frans van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Corina Andone, Eveline Feteris and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans have provided a new and illuminating perspective on the context-dependency of argumentative discourse.
Non-Prototypical Reduplication
Non-Prototypical Reduplication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Non-Prototypical Reduplication write by Aina Urdze. This book was released on 2018-05-07. Non-Prototypical Reduplication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As “reduplication” is a continuously discussed topic in the field of linguistic typology and morphology there is still the need to reach a deeper understanding of reduplicative processes. This volume aims to explore the boundaries of reduplication proper from an outside angle, i.e. by looking into non-prototypical cases which challenge the formal and functional criteria for reduplication proper. The articles selected cover various linguistic areals from Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe. Abbi explores echo formations and reduplicative expressives in Southeast Asia. Anderson presents an in-depth study on various reduplication phenomena in the Munda language family. Nintemann addresses a formal problem of reduplication proper in Bantu languages. Finkbeiner discusses a case of triplication in German, contrasting it with the framework of reduplication. Kallergi & Konstantinidou provide an detailed insight into several kinds of echo formations in Modern Greek, including diachronic aspects. Rozhanskiy’s focus is on unexpected reduplicative patterns found in the formation of Komi ideophones. Stolz delivers a thorough crosslinguistic investigation on reduplicative phenomena, favouring the canonical approach over the prototype method.
Non-prototypical Clefts in French
Non-prototypical Clefts in French - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Non-prototypical Clefts in French write by Lena Karssenberg. This book was released on 2018-09-24. Non-prototypical Clefts in French available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
English: The Prototypical World Language for the Twenty First Century
English: The Prototypical World Language for the Twenty First Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English: The Prototypical World Language for the Twenty First Century write by Ph. D. John Fraser. This book was released on 2009-08-17. English: The Prototypical World Language for the Twenty First Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ABSTRACT:Global language communication has always been a topic of great interest. How and why majority languages evolved is an intriguing topic that has evolved over the centuries. Evidence has been rapidly mounting that suggest that there are only a handful of spoken languages that receive more utility than that of the thousands available today. Indeed, there are a remarkable 6,912 world languages in existence today spoken in approximately 245 countries, including territories and disputed lands by over 6.7 billion people. However, for as many languages as there exist today, there are numerous languages that go unused or are only spoken by a few people and are headed for extinction.
