On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia / / edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Lindsay J. Whaley

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylavania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (455 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Variation; Linguistic change; Multilingualism - Europe; Multilingualism - Asia; Discourse analysis - Social aspects - Europe; Discourse analysis - Social aspects - Asia; Typology (Linguistics)
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Languages; Asia Languages
• Persona (resp. second.): SuihkonenPirkko; WhaleyLindsay J.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of content; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; I. Verbal categories and processes in categorization; II. Syntactic functions and case marking; III. Clause combining and discourse; IV. Historical issues; References; The tense-aspect system of Khorchin; 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Data collection and research methdology; 4. Structure of the Khorchin TA system; 5. Markers of the Khorchin TA system; 5.1 Central system ; 5.1.1 The Non-Past Non-Progressive -na5.1.2 The Past Non-Imperfective -zE; 5.1.3 Present Progressive and Past Imperfective; 5.1.4 Prospectives; 5.1.5 Markers of resultativity, iterativity and continuativity; 5.2 Minor simple forms and their combinability; 5.2.1 -sen; 5.2.2 -lE; 5.2.3 -i; 5.3 Non-verbal predications; 5.4 Non-temporal and non-aspectual notions; 5.4.1 -tqeg- as a marker of dissatisfaction; 5.4.2 gene and other means related to evidentiality; 5.4.3 Long vs. short suffix variants; 6. Areal and diachronic factors: A preliminary evaluation; References ; Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language1. Introduction: Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language; 2. Morphological structure of South Siberian Turkic; 3. An outline of biverbal constructions and their grammaticalization paths in South Siberian Turkic; 3.1 Biverbal constructions; 3.2 Aktionsart; 3.3 Aspect-temporal forms; 3.4 Forms of modality and mood; 3.5 Combinations of various biverbal constructions; 4. From an actional form to an aspect-temporal one ; Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Morphological causatives and passives in Xibe; 4. Functional explanation; 4.1 Condition 1: 'Give' as a matrix verb functioning as an analytic causative; 4.2 Condition 2: Matrix verbs become auxiliaries, and/or derivational suffixes; 4.3 Condition 3: Subjects and accusative case markers are often omitted; 4.4 The path to causative/passive isomorphism; 5. Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; Appendix - the corpus; Spatial semantics, case and relator nouns in Evenki; 1. Introduction ; 2. Overview of the cases
• Sommario/riassunto: In this article, the historical development of sentential negation is compared across the Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages to make inferences about the expression of negation in the common Transeurasian proto-language. Integrating typological considerations, including grammaticalization theory, into the argumentation, the approach taken here differs from previous studies, which are limited to form-function comparison of individual markers. The historical development of negation in the Transeurasian languages is argued to involve a grammaticalization pathway whereby a
• Titolo autorizzato: On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia
• ISBN: 90-272-6936-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814970303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language companion series ; ; Volume 164.