1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996237242803316

Autore

Dailey E. T (Erin T.)

Titolo

Queens, consorts, concubines : Gregory of Tours and women of the Merovingian elite / / by E.T. Dailey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands  : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-29466-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Mnemosyne, Supplements, Late Antique Literature, , 2214-5621 ; ; Volume 381

Disciplina

944/.01309252

Soggetti

Merovingians - Historiography

Merovingians - Politics and government - Historiography

Women - Gaul - Historiography

Elite (Social sciences) - Gaul - Historiography

Merovingians

Women - Gaul

Gaul Historiography

France History To 987 Historiography

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Widowhood -- 2 Holiness, Femininity, and Authority -- 3 Scandal in Poitiers -- 4 Brides and Social Status -- 5 Merovingian Marital Practice -- 6 Brunhild and Fredegund, i: Moral Opposites or Kindred Spirits? -- 7 Brunhild and Fredegund, ii: Queens, Politics, and the Writing of History -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Gregory of Tours hoped to inspire the believers in sixth-century Gaul with examples of righteous and wicked deeds and their consequences. Critiquing his own society, Gregory contrasted vengeful queens, rebellious nuns, and conniving witches with pious widows, humble abbesses, and tearful saints. By examining his thematic treatment of topics including widowhood, marriage, sanctity, authority, and political agency, Queens, Consorts, Concubines reassesses the material shaped by such concerns, including e.g. Gregory’s accounts of Brunhild,



Fredegund, Radegund, and other important elite women, Merovingian political policies (marital alliances, ecclesiastical intrigue, even assassinations), and seemingly unrelated topics such as Hermenegild’s rebellion and the career of Empress Sophia. The result: a new interpretation of an important witness to the transformations of Late Antiquity.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792595303321

Titolo

Cognitive perspectives on word formation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alexander Onysko, Sascha Michel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010

ISBN

1-282-71640-9

9786612716409

3-11-022360-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Collana

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; ; 221

Classificazione

ET 350

Altri autori (Persone)

OnyskoAlexander

MichelSascha

Disciplina

415/.92

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Word formation

Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Unravelling the cognitive in word formation / Onysko, Alexander / Michel, Sascha -- Part I Theory and interfaces in word formation -- Word-formation or word formation? The formation of complex words in Cognitive Linguistics / Lampert, Martina / Lampert, Giinther -- On the viability of cognitive morphology for explaining language change / Gaeta, Livio -- (Re)defining component structures in morphological constructions: A Cognitive Grammar perspective / van Huyssteen, Gerhard B -- Between phonology and morphology / Elsen, Hilke -- The role of grammatical gender in noun-formation: A diachronic perspective from Norwegian / Conzett, Philipp -- Adjective + Noun constructions between syntax and



word formation in Dutch and German / Hüning, Matthias -- Part II Theory and processes of word formation -- Setting limits on creativity in the production and use of metaphorical and metonymical compounds / Benczes, Réka -- Casting the conceptual spotlight: Hybrid compounding in German as an example of headframe internal specifier selection / Onysko, Alexander -- Does love come from to love or to love from love? Why lexical motivation has to be regarded as bidirectional / Umbreit, Birgit -- Doubler-upper nouns: A challenge for usage-based models of language? / Cappelle, Bert -- The influence of morphological structure on the processing of German prefixed verbs / Heide, Judith / Lorenz, Antje / Meinunger, André / Burchert, Frank -- Harvesting and understanding on-line neologisms / Veale, Tony / Butnariu, Cristina -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

While cognitive linguistics has become established as a comprehensive research paradigm over the last three decades, it has so far hardly contributed to investigations into processes of lexical creation as traditionally captured in research on word formation. In light of this, the volume at hand is the first one to take a step ahead towards illuminating diverse aspects of word formation from cognitive perspectives. The book combines contributions to the 2nd International Cognitive Linguistics Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association with a selection of invited papers by scholars working on issues of word formation and cognitive linguistics. This selection is guided by pluralism in both methodology and topics. Thus, some contributions are of a primarily theoretical nature discussing, for example, recombinance as a model of word formation and a taxonomy of word formation processes as construction types. Several articles address interface issues such as word formation and phrasal constructions, word formation and inflection, as well as phonology and word formational patterns. The majority of the studies focuses on individual types of word formation (compounding, affixation, and conversion), and they contribute to reframing our understanding of these processes. With a focus on mostly Germanic languages (Afrikaans, Dutch, English, German, Luxembourgish, and Norwegian), data-driven analyses include corpus linguistic investigations, elicited data, psycholinguistic experiments, and computational linguistic applications. A few contributions follow a mainly introspective path of reasoning based on the discussion of selected examples as in the analysis of creative compounds. Overall, the volume provides a rich array of topics emerging under the umbrella of cognitive linguistic thought and established patterns and processes of word formation. The various studies add to a yet marginal body of research in cognitive word formation and, thus, advance our awareness about the benefits of applying cognitive linguistic thoughts for investigating processes of lexical creation.