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Record Nr.

UNINA9910975328203321

Autore

Hoelbeek Thomas

Titolo

The evolution of complex spatial expressions within the Romance family : a corpus-based study of French and Italian / / by Thomas Hoelbeek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017]

ISBN

9789004314580

900431458X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; ; v. 7

Disciplina

445

Soggetti

Romance languages - Grammar, Comparative

Romance languages - Semantics

French language - Grammar, Comparative - Italian

Italian language - Grammar, Comparative - French

Historical linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book is a revised version of my Ph. D. dissertation, which I defended at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on April 28, 2014."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- On French and Italian Complex Spatial Expressions -- Data Collection and Research Methodology -- Interpretative Framework -- Results of the French Analysis -- Results of the Italian Analysis -- Contrastive Analysis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Cited Text Index -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Evolution of Complex Spatial Expressions within the Romance Family , Thomas Hoelbeek offers a corpus-based historical study of a group of expressions in French and Italian. Applying a functional approach, he tackles adpositions containing the French noun travers or the Italian noun traverso , previously never analysed from a diachronic perspective. This study enriches our knowledge of the expressions analysed and their functioning in the past, but also in present-day French and Italian, providing diachronic observations regarding functional notions put to the test. Thomas Hoelbeek’s work also contributes to a better understanding of the grammaticalisation mechanisms of complex constructions, and shows that typologically



related languages may evolve differently in their ways of representing space.