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Binominal quantifiers in Spanish : conceptually-driven analogy in diachrony and synchrony / / Katrien Dora Verveckken



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Autore: Verveckken Katrien Dora <1984-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Binominal quantifiers in Spanish : conceptually-driven analogy in diachrony and synchrony / / Katrien Dora Verveckken Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (532 p.)
Disciplina: 465/.5
Soggetto topico: Spanish language - Nominals
Spanish language - Qualifiers
Spanish language - Topic and comment
Soggetto non controllato: Cognitive Semantics
Cognitive-functional Linguistics
Conceptualization in Quantification
Grammaticalization (of Constructions)
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Framework, state of the art and methodology -- 3. Binominal quantifiers as a locus of grammaticalization -- Part 2. Diachronic case-studies - towards a constructional network model -- 4. The development of montón de, a typical locus of grammaticalization -- 5. The role of conceptual persistence and analogy in the development of BQs -- 6. Theoretical reflection: a constructional network model of the development of BQs -- Part 3. Synchronic case-studies - towards a constructional network model -- 7. QN-related schematization and N2-profiling -- 8. The motivated nature of the QN-related co-selection patterns -- 9. Theoretical reflection: the notion of CIP revisited -- Part 4. Conclusions -- 10. Conclusion -- References
Sommario/riassunto: Quantification is central to human experience (cf. Aristotle's Organon): the most basic aspects of human life and reasoning involve quantity assessment. This study sheds lights on a highly frequent way to express quantification in Spanish, viz. the binominal quantifier (e.g. un aluviónN1 de llamadasN2 'a flood of calls') which assesses the quantity of N2 in terms of N1. This volume offers a corpus-based, cognitive-functional analysis of binominal quantifiers (BQ) in Spanish. The first part is dedicated to the development of BQs and starts from the assumption that BQs are cross-linguistically involved in grammaticalization. This monograph frames the history of BQs in Spanish in terms of constructional levels of change and highlights the complex interplay between analogical thinking and conceptual persistence. The second part motivates both the ample variation in the paradigm of quantifying nouns and their combinatorial pattern by the very same mechanism of conceptually-driven analogy. The study thus yields an innovative functional model of BQs in Spanish, in synchrony and in diachrony, with major implications for reference grammars and theory building.
Titolo autorizzato: Binominal quantifiers in Spanish  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-11-040673-X
3-11-040683-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910797442803321
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Serie: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie ; ; Band 391.