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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971809903321

Titolo

Nominalization in Asian languages : diachronic and typological perspectives / / edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta, Janick Wrona

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

9786613144119

9781283144117

1283144115

9789027287243

9027287244

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 796 p. : ill

Collana

Typological studies in language, , 0167-7373 ; ; v. 96

Altri autori (Persone)

YapFoong Ha

Grunow-HårstaKaren

WronaJanick <1971->

Disciplina

495

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Nominals

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun

Typology (Linguistics)

Historical linguistics

Asia Languages

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 and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Sinitic languages -- pt. 2. Tibeto-Burman languages -- pt. 3. Iranian languages -- pt. 4. Korean and Japanese languages -- pt. 5. Austronesian languages -- pt. 6. Papuan languages.

Sommario/riassunto

In a number of East and South-East Asian languages, certain grammatical elements such as pronouns, generic nouns, or demonstratives (e.g. one, thing, this) have acquired additional pragmatic functions. Well-documented examples of this grammaticalization process are the Mandarin de, the Malay punya/nya/mia and the Japanese no (cf. Yap, Matthews et al. 2004); the grammaticalized element occurs in the sentence-final position



encoding speaker's certainty about the proposition. A similar development has taken place in Abui (a Papuan language of Eastern Indonesia); markers describing speaker's attitude towards a proposition (evidentiality and assertion) are recruited from two sources: (i) demonstratives and (ii) the utterance verb ba 'say'.