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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452848403321

Titolo

Plurality and classifiers across languages in China [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Dan Xu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012

ISBN

3-11-048534-6

3-11-029398-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; v. 255

Altri autori (Persone)

XuDan

Disciplina

495.1/5

Soggetti

Chinese language - Quantifiers

Chinese language - Grammar

Grammar, Comparative and general - Quantifiers

Grammar, Comparative and general - Number

Sociolinguistics - China

Electronic books.

China Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction Plurality and Classifiers across languages of China / Xu, Dan -- I Correlations between different types of quantification -- 1 Numeral classifiers with plural marking. A challenge to Greenberg / Bisang, Walter -- 2 Reduplication in languages: A case study of languages of China / Xu, Dan -- II Numeral classifiers and their diachronic development -- 3 The Syntax and prosody of classifiers in Classical Chinese / Feng, Shengli -- 4 Individuating classifiers in Early Southern Min (14th-19th centuries) / Jang-Ling, Lin / Peyraube, Alain -- III The expression of plurality -- 5 Plurality and the subclassification of Nouns in Classical Chinese / Harbsmeier, Christoph -- 6 Number in Chinese: a diachronic study of zhū 諸 from Han to Wei Jin Nanbeichao Chinese / Meisterernst, Barbara -- 7 Bu-tong 'different' and nominal plurality in Mandarin Chinese / Paris, Marie-Claude -- 8 Plurality in the pronominal paradigms of Bai dialects / Fu, Jingqi -- 9 Frequentative aspect and pluractionality in Nuosu Yi / Liu, Hongyong / Gu, Yang -- 10



Quantificational structures in three-yearold Chinese-speaking children / Hun-Tak Lee, Thomas -- Author index -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Plural marking, numeral classifiers and reduplication constitute the main means of quantification marking in the domain of grammar. The contributions in this book focus on the typological correlation between the three different strategies for quantification, as well as on some general issues. A better understanding of the quantification strategies in the languages of China will enrich our comprehension of human language and thought. The book is expected to have an impact on the study of linguistic typology, language contact, and patterns of the evolution.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777773303321

Autore

Cowan Brian William <1969->

Titolo

The social life of coffee [[electronic resource] ] : the emergence of the British coffeehouse / / Brian Cowan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-281-72271-5

9786611722715

0-300-13350-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Classificazione

NN 7500

Disciplina

647.9509

Soggetti

Coffeehouses - History

Coffee - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-354) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Styles and Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. An Acquired Taste -- 2. Coffee and Early Modern Drug Culture -- 3. From Mocha to Java -- 4. Penny Universities? -- 5. Exotic Fantasies and Commercial Anxieties -- 6. Before Bureaucracy -- 7. Policing the Coffeehouse -- 8. Civilizing Society -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in



the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain's virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.