Animacy and Reference [[electronic resource] ] : A cognitive approach to corpus linguistics
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| Autore: |
Yamamoto Mutsumi
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| Titolo: |
Animacy and Reference [[electronic resource] ] : A cognitive approach to corpus linguistics
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 415 |
| Soggetto topico: | English language -- Animacy |
| English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Japanese | |
| Grammar, Comparative and general -- Animacy | |
| Japanese language -- Animacy | |
| Japanese language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English | |
| Reference (Linguistics) | |
| Grammar, Comparative and general - Animacy | |
| Reference (Linguistics) - Animacy | |
| English language - Animacy | |
| Japanese language - Grammar, Comparative - Japanese | |
| English language - Grammar, Comparative - English | |
| Japanese language | |
| Philology & Linguistics | |
| Languages & Literatures | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ANIMACY AND REFERENCE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. What is 'Animacy'?; CHAPTER 2. What Does Animacy Do to Human Language?; CHAPTER 3. Hierarchy of Persons and Animacy in English and Japanese: With Reference to the Distinction between Singularity an; CHAPTER 4. Degree of Individuation and Encoding of Animacy; CHAPTER 5. Agency and Animacy: Their Expression and Suppression; CHAPTER 6. A Neverending Story of Animacy: Some Achievements, Further Prospects and Implications; References |
| Appendix: Lists of Human/Animate Noun Phrases in CorpusIndex; STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES (SLCS) | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The concept of 'animacy' concerns the fundamental and cognitive question of the extent to which we recognize and express living things as saliently human-like or animal-like.In Animacy and Reference Mutsumi Yamamoto pursues two main objectives: First, to establish a conceptual framework of animacy, and secondly, to explain how the concept of animacy can be reflected in the use of referential expressions. Unlike previous studies on the subject focussing on grammatical manifestations, Animacy and Reference sheds light upon the conceptual properties of animacy itself and its r |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Animacy and reference |
| ISBN: | 1-282-16299-3 |
| 9786612162992 | |
| 90-272-9876-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454105003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in Language Companion Series