1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463519403321

Autore

Vergara Wilson Damián Chase

Titolo

Categorization and constructional change in Spanish expressions of 'becoming' / / Damián Vergara Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-27445-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics, , 2211-4904 ; ; Volume 4

Disciplina

465/.6

Soggetti

Spanish language - Figures of speech

Spanish language - Verb

Spanish language - Adverbs

Historical linguistics

Construction grammar

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Revised from author's dissertation "Formulaic language and adjective categories in eight centuries of the Spanish expression of 'becoming' /quedar(se)/ + ADJ", University of New Mexico, 2009.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 ‘Becoming’ in Spanish -- 3 Data and Methods -- 4 Overview of quedar(se) + adj through Time -- 5 The solo ‘Alone’ Clusters: Continual Expansion with a Robust Central Member -- 6 The rico / pobre ‘Rich / Poor’ Clusters: The Relationship of Opposites in Category Development -- 7 The alegre / satisfecho ‘Happy / Satisfied’ Clusters: Family Resemblance and Changing Central Members -- 8 Similarity Experiment -- 9 Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Adjective Clusters and Tables not Analyzed -- Appendix 2: Sources in the qad -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Categorization and Constructional Change Damián Vergara Wilson uses the Spanish change-of-state construction quedar(se) + ADJ to analyze the impact of categorization on constructional change and productivity in data spanning eight centuries. In usage, the appearance of one adjective in the construction triggers the emergence of related



ones through analogical extension propelling the expansion of semantic categories of adjectives. Categories develop in different ways reflecting the characteristics of their members in terms of semantics and conventionalization. Emergence tends to relate to the ability of one construction to attract adjective types away from another. This study gives insight into the cognitive status and complex evolution of a schematic construction in a way that supports an instance-based model of memory.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789756103321

Autore

White Benjamin Thomas

Titolo

The emergence of minorities in the Middle East : the politics of community in French mandate Syria / / Benjamin Thomas White [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-7486-5328-7

1-283-25280-5

9786613252807

0-7486-4755-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

956.91041

Soggetti

Minorities - Syria - 20th century

National characteristics, Syrian

Ethnicity - Syria - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Map 1. Syria c.1936 -- Map 2. The far Northeast of Syria in the 1930s -- Outline chronology of the French Mandate, 1919-39 -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- pt. I. Minorities, majorities and the nation-state -- 'Minorities' and the French Mandate -- pt. II. Separatism and autonomism -- The border and the Kurds -- pt. III. The Franco-Syrian Treaty and the definition of 'minorities' -- Personal status law reform -- Conclusion : minorities, majorities and the writing



of history.

Sommario/riassunto

This book uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'.