Reduced parenthetical clauses : a corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish / / Stefan Schneider

• Autore: Schneider Stefan <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Clauses; Grammar, Comparative and general - Parenthetical constructions; Pragmatics; Semantics
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Reduced Parenthetical Clauses as Mitigators -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS AND NOTATION CONVENTIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PARENTHESIS: A PROBLEMATIC CONCEPT -- 3. PREVIOUS STUDIES -- 4. REDUCED PARENTHETICAL CLAUSES IN SPOKEN CORPORA -- 5. PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS: FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES -- 6. PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS: FUNCTIONS -- 7. SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC PROPERTIES -- 8. SYNTACIC PROPERTIES -- 9. PROSODIC PROPERTIES -- 10. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.
• Sommario/riassunto: While parentheticals attract constant attention, they very rarely constitute the main subject of monographs. This book provides a comprehensive account of reduced parenthetical clauses (RPCs) in three Romance languages. Typical French RPCs are je crois, disons, je dirais, je pense, je sais pas, and je trouve. The research draws on 22 corpora of spoken French, Italian, and Spanish comprising a total amount of 3,975,500 words. Its results consist in a typology of the relevant expressions in the three languages, in the understanding of their pragmatic function and of the factors influencing their use, and in the description of their syntactic and prosodic properties. Other findings are that RPCs are not restricted to statements but also occur in questions and that belief verbs are not as frequent as commonly assumed. Although the book is about Romance parentheticals, its conclusions are relevant for other languages.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reduced parenthetical clauses
• ISBN: 1-282-15493-1; 9786612154935; 90-272-9281-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821732403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in corpus linguistics ; ; v. 27.