Coherence / T. Givon |
Autore | Givón Talmy <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (307 pages) |
Disciplina | 401.41 |
Soggetto topico |
Cohesion (Linguistics)
Discourse analysis - Psychological aspects |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794306303321 |
Givón Talmy <1936-> | ||
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Coherence / T. Givon |
Autore | Givón Talmy <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (307 pages) |
Disciplina | 401.41 |
Soggetto topico |
Cohesion (Linguistics)
Discourse analysis - Psychological aspects |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822720703321 |
Givón Talmy <1936-> | ||
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The diachrony of grammar / / T. Givón |
Autore | Givón Talmy <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (875 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology Language and languages - Origin Role and reference grammar Functional discourse grammar Psycholinguistics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 90-272-6888-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
4. A wild safari through the jungle of English derivational morphology4.1 Causative suffixes; 4.2 Nominalized verb-phrase compounds; 4.3 Pre-verbal incorporated prepositions; 4.4 OV nominalizations and the GEN-N noun-phrase order; 4.5 The noun-to-adjective derivational suffix -ly; 4.6 The noun-to-verb derivational prefix en-; 4.7 Noun-to-noun derivational suffixes; 5. Discussion; 5.1 The morphogenesis cycle and the attrition of bound morphemes; 5.2 Do all bound morphemes come from lexical words?; 5.3 Historical syntax and synchronic morphology; 5.4 Moral; Abbreviations of grammatical terms
From discourse to syntax: Grammar as a processing strategy1. Introduction ; 2. The diachrony of syntacticization; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 From topic to subject; 2.3 From topicalization to passivization; 2.4 From conjoined topic clause to embedded relative clause; 2.5 From conjoined to embedded verb complements; 2.6 Resultative verb compounds in Mandarin; 2.7 Complex possessive constructions; 2.8 Focus clauses and WH-questions; 2.9 From clause-chaining to serial-verb clauses; 2.10 Interim summary; 3. Pidgin vs. Creole language; 4. Child vs. adult language 5. Informal oral vs. formal-written adult discourse6. Discussion; 6.1 Coding modalities and developmental trends; 6.2 The diachronic cycle; 6.3 Diachrony and typological diversity; 6.4 Universality, evolution and explanation; 6.5 Grammar as an automated processing strategy ; Abbreviation of grammatical terms; Where does crazy syntax come from?; 1. Introduction ; 2. Crazy synchronic phonology; 3. Case studies; 3.1 The Kimbundu passive revisited; 3.2 The Kihungan cleft and WH-question revisited; 3.3 German REL-clauses revisited 3.4 Unintended consequences of compressing chained clauses into serial-verb clauses3.4.1 The ba-construction in Mandarin Chines; 3.4.2 The de-verbal conjunction of Yoruba; 3.4.3 Word-order in Ijo; 3.5 German word-order and tense-aspect renovation; 3.6 The Romance and Bantu object pronouns revisited; 3.7 No. Uto-Aztecan nominalized subordinate clauses; 4. Discussion; 4.1 Naturalness: Commonality vs. ease of processing; 4.2 The temporal curve of the diachronic cycle; 4.3 Naturalness: Synchrony vs. diachrony; Abbreviation of grammatical terms; PART II. Out of Africa On the diachrony of the Bantu copula ni |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461183203321 |
Givón Talmy <1936-> | ||
Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The diachrony of grammar / / T. Givón |
Autore | Givón Talmy <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (875 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology Language and languages - Origin Role and reference grammar Functional discourse grammar Psycholinguistics |
ISBN | 90-272-6888-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
4. A wild safari through the jungle of English derivational morphology4.1 Causative suffixes; 4.2 Nominalized verb-phrase compounds; 4.3 Pre-verbal incorporated prepositions; 4.4 OV nominalizations and the GEN-N noun-phrase order; 4.5 The noun-to-adjective derivational suffix -ly; 4.6 The noun-to-verb derivational prefix en-; 4.7 Noun-to-noun derivational suffixes; 5. Discussion; 5.1 The morphogenesis cycle and the attrition of bound morphemes; 5.2 Do all bound morphemes come from lexical words?; 5.3 Historical syntax and synchronic morphology; 5.4 Moral; Abbreviations of grammatical terms
From discourse to syntax: Grammar as a processing strategy1. Introduction ; 2. The diachrony of syntacticization; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 From topic to subject; 2.3 From topicalization to passivization; 2.4 From conjoined topic clause to embedded relative clause; 2.5 From conjoined to embedded verb complements; 2.6 Resultative verb compounds in Mandarin; 2.7 Complex possessive constructions; 2.8 Focus clauses and WH-questions; 2.9 From clause-chaining to serial-verb clauses; 2.10 Interim summary; 3. Pidgin vs. Creole language; 4. Child vs. adult language 5. Informal oral vs. formal-written adult discourse6. Discussion; 6.1 Coding modalities and developmental trends; 6.2 The diachronic cycle; 6.3 Diachrony and typological diversity; 6.4 Universality, evolution and explanation; 6.5 Grammar as an automated processing strategy ; Abbreviation of grammatical terms; Where does crazy syntax come from?; 1. Introduction ; 2. Crazy synchronic phonology; 3. Case studies; 3.1 The Kimbundu passive revisited; 3.2 The Kihungan cleft and WH-question revisited; 3.3 German REL-clauses revisited 3.4 Unintended consequences of compressing chained clauses into serial-verb clauses3.4.1 The ba-construction in Mandarin Chines; 3.4.2 The de-verbal conjunction of Yoruba; 3.4.3 Word-order in Ijo; 3.5 German word-order and tense-aspect renovation; 3.6 The Romance and Bantu object pronouns revisited; 3.7 No. Uto-Aztecan nominalized subordinate clauses; 4. Discussion; 4.1 Naturalness: Commonality vs. ease of processing; 4.2 The temporal curve of the diachronic cycle; 4.3 Naturalness: Synchrony vs. diachrony; Abbreviation of grammatical terms; PART II. Out of Africa On the diachrony of the Bantu copula ni |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797666103321 |
Givón Talmy <1936-> | ||
Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The diachrony of grammar / / T. Givón |
Autore | Givón Talmy <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (875 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology Language and languages - Origin Role and reference grammar Functional discourse grammar Psycholinguistics |
ISBN | 90-272-6888-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
4. A wild safari through the jungle of English derivational morphology4.1 Causative suffixes; 4.2 Nominalized verb-phrase compounds; 4.3 Pre-verbal incorporated prepositions; 4.4 OV nominalizations and the GEN-N noun-phrase order; 4.5 The noun-to-adjective derivational suffix -ly; 4.6 The noun-to-verb derivational prefix en-; 4.7 Noun-to-noun derivational suffixes; 5. Discussion; 5.1 The morphogenesis cycle and the attrition of bound morphemes; 5.2 Do all bound morphemes come from lexical words?; 5.3 Historical syntax and synchronic morphology; 5.4 Moral; Abbreviations of grammatical terms
From discourse to syntax: Grammar as a processing strategy1. Introduction ; 2. The diachrony of syntacticization; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 From topic to subject; 2.3 From topicalization to passivization; 2.4 From conjoined topic clause to embedded relative clause; 2.5 From conjoined to embedded verb complements; 2.6 Resultative verb compounds in Mandarin; 2.7 Complex possessive constructions; 2.8 Focus clauses and WH-questions; 2.9 From clause-chaining to serial-verb clauses; 2.10 Interim summary; 3. Pidgin vs. Creole language; 4. Child vs. adult language 5. Informal oral vs. formal-written adult discourse6. Discussion; 6.1 Coding modalities and developmental trends; 6.2 The diachronic cycle; 6.3 Diachrony and typological diversity; 6.4 Universality, evolution and explanation; 6.5 Grammar as an automated processing strategy ; Abbreviation of grammatical terms; Where does crazy syntax come from?; 1. Introduction ; 2. Crazy synchronic phonology; 3. Case studies; 3.1 The Kimbundu passive revisited; 3.2 The Kihungan cleft and WH-question revisited; 3.3 German REL-clauses revisited 3.4 Unintended consequences of compressing chained clauses into serial-verb clauses3.4.1 The ba-construction in Mandarin Chines; 3.4.2 The de-verbal conjunction of Yoruba; 3.4.3 Word-order in Ijo; 3.5 German word-order and tense-aspect renovation; 3.6 The Romance and Bantu object pronouns revisited; 3.7 No. Uto-Aztecan nominalized subordinate clauses; 4. Discussion; 4.1 Naturalness: Commonality vs. ease of processing; 4.2 The temporal curve of the diachronic cycle; 4.3 Naturalness: Synchrony vs. diachrony; Abbreviation of grammatical terms; PART II. Out of Africa On the diachrony of the Bantu copula ni |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822248703321 |
Givón Talmy <1936-> | ||
Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English grammar [[electronic resource]] . Volume I : a function-based introduction / / T. Givón |
Autore | Givón Talmy <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
Disciplina | 428.2 |
Soggetto topico | English language - Grammar |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-49728-9
9786613592514 90-272-7389-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
ENGLISH GRAMMAR A FUNCTION-BASED INTRODUCTION Volume I; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. GRAMMAR AND COMMUNICATION; 1.1.1. Structure vs. function; 1.1.2. Arbitrary vs. motivated rules of grammar; 1.1.3. Rules of grammar vs. communicative strategies; 1.1.4. Cross-language diversity of grammatical strategies; 1.2. WHOSE GRAMMAR?; 1.2.1. Prescriptive vs. descriptive grammars; 1.2.2. Historic time; 1.2.3. Age: The grammar of youth; 1.2.4. Spoken vs. written language; 1.2.5. Educated vs. uneducated grammar; 1.2.6. Formal vs. informal grammar
1.2.7. Grammar and social status1.2.8. Grammar and ethnic minorities; 1.2.9. Geographical dialects; 1.2.10. Grammar and foreign talk; 1.2.11. Grammar and individual style; 1.3. GRAMMAR FOR COMMUNICATION; 1.3.1. Major functions of language; 1.3.2. Words, clauses, discourse; 1.3.3. Grammar as a communicative code; 1.3.3.1. Joint coding; 1.3.3.2. Coding devices in syntax; 1.4. THEME AND VARIATION IN SYNTACTIC DESCRIPTION; 1.5. PARSING: TREE DIAGRAMS; 1.6. DEEP STRUCTURE, SURFACE STRUCTURE AND MEANING; NOTES; 2. VOCABULARY: WORDS AND MORPHEMES; 2.1. PRELIMINARIES 2.1.1. Recapitulation: Meaning, information and communication2.1.2. The conceptual lexicon: Semantic features and semantic fields; 2.1.3. Shared vocabulary: Meaning and cultural world-view; 2.1.4. History of the English lexicon; 2.2. LEXICAL VS. GRAMMATICAL VOCABULARY; 2.2.1. Lexical words; 2.2.2. Grammatical morphemes; 2.2.3. Derivational morphemes; 2.3. THE MORPHEMIC STATUS OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY; 2.4. LEXICAL WORD-CLASSES; 2.4.1. Membership criteria; 2.4.2. Natural classes: Prototypicality and variability; 2.4.3. Semantic overview; 2.4.4. Nouns; 2.4.4.1. Semantic characteristics 2.4.4.2. Syntactic behavior2.4.4.3. Morphological characteristics; 2.4.5. Adjectives; 2.4.5.1. Semantic characteristics; 2.4.5.1.1. Prototypical adjectives; 2.4.5.1.2. Less prototypical adjectives; 2.4.5.1.3. Derived adjectives; 2.4.5.1.4. Polarity of antonymic pairs; 2.4.5.2. Syntactic behavior; 2.4.5.3. Morphological characteristics; 2.4.5.3.1. Grammatical morphology; 2.4.5.3.2. Derivational morphology; 2.4.6. Verbs; 2.4.6.1. Semantic characterization; 2.4.6.2. Syntactic characterization; 2.4.6.3. Morphological characterization; 2.4.6.3.1. Grammatical morphology 2.4.6.3.2. Derivational morphology2.4.7. Adverbs; 2.4.7.1. Preamble; 2.4.7.2. Mariner adverbs; 2.4.7.3. Time, frequency or aspectuality adverbs; 2.4.7.4. Epistemic adverbs; 2.4.7.5. Evaluative adverbs; 2.4.7.6. Adverbs modifying adjectives; 2.4.7.7. Emphatic adverbs; 2.5. MINOR WORD CLASSES; 2.5.1. Preamble; 2.5.2. Prepositions; 2.5.3. Inter-clausal connectives; 2.5.3.1. Conjunctions; 2.5.3.2. Subordinators; 2.5.4. Pronouns; 2.5.5. Determiners; 2.5.5.1. Articles; 2.5.5.2. Demonstratives; 2.5.5.3. Possessor pronouns; 2.5.6. Quantifiers; 2.5.7. Numerals; 2.5.8. Ordinals; 2.5.9. Auxiliarie 2.5.10. Interjections |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461432303321 |
Givón Talmy <1936-> | ||
Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English grammar [[electronic resource]] . Volume II : a function-based introduction / / T. Givón |
Autore | Givón Talmy <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 pages) |
Disciplina | 428.2 |
Soggetto topico | English language - Grammar |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-49727-0
9786613592507 90-272-7388-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
ENGLISH GRAMMAR A FUNCTION-BASED INTRODUCTION Volume II; Title page; Copyright page; TABLE OF CONTENTS; 7. VERBAL COMPLEMENTS; 7.1. INTRODUCTION; 7.2. THE SEMANTICS OF EVENT INTEGRATION; 7.2.1. Preamble; 7.2.2. Sub-dimensions of event integration; 7.2.2.1. Semantic and syntactic definitions: manipulation and P-C-U verbs; 7.2.2.2. Implicativity, co-temporality and control; 7.2.2.3. Intent, control and agentivity; 7.2.2.4. Control and temporal contiguity; 7.2.2.5. Direct contact and spatio-temporal contiguity; 7.2.2.6. Resistance, coercive effort and independence
7.2.2.7. Event integration vs. causation 7.2.2.8. Referential cohesion and event integration; 7.2.2.9, Authority and verbal manipulation; 7.2.3. From manipulation to preference to epistemics; 7.2.4. Tense agreement and integrated perspective; 7.2.5. From indirect to direct quote: The de-coupling of point-of-view; 7.2.6. Summary; 7.3. THE SYNTAX OF CLAUSE INTEGRATION; 7.3.1. Preamble; 7.3.2. Verb adjacency or co-lexicalization; 7.3.3. Case-marking of the complement-clause subject; 7.3.4. Verb morphology: Degree of finiteness; 7.3.5. Physical separation: Subordinators and pause 7.4. MODALITY VERBS 7.4.1. Definition of modality verbs; 7.4.2. Semantic dimensions; 7.4.2.1. Referential cohesion and event integration; 7.4.2.2. Implicativity; 7.4.2.3. Strength of intent; 7.4.2.4. How-to complements; 7.4.2.5. From self-directed intent to other-directed preference; 7.5. FOR-TO COMPLEMENTS; 7.6. CONDITIONAL COMPLEMENTS; 7.7. WH-COMPLEMENTS; 7.8. POST-POSED P-C-U VERBS; 7.9. NON-VERBAL PREDICATES WITH VERBAL COMPLEMENTS; NOTES; 8. VOICE AND DE-TRANSITIVIZATION; 8.1. INTRODUCTION; 8.2. FUNCTIONAL DIMENSIONS OF VOICE; 8.2.1. The semantics of transitivity 8.2.2. The pragmatics of voice 8.2.2.1. Perspective and topicality; 8.2.2.2. Active voice; 8.2.2.3. Passive voice; 8.2.2.4. Antipassive voice; 8.2.3. Demotion, promotion and resulting state; 8.2.3.1. Agent demotion; 8.2.3.2. Promotion of a non-agent; 8.2.3.3. Verb stativization; 8.3. THE FREQUENCY-DISTRIBUTION OF VOICE IN TEXT; 8.4. THE SYNTAX OF DE-TRANSITIVE CLAUSES; 8.4.1. Syntactic coding devices; 8.4.2. Promotional vs. non-promotional de-transitives; 8.4.3. Case-role restrictions in de-transitivization; 8.4.3.1. Case-role restrictions 8.4.3.2. Understanding promotional passives: Semantic vs. pragmatic case-marking 8.4.3.3. Exceptions that reaffirm the rule; 8.5. OTHER DE-TRANSITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS; 8.5.1. Preamble; 8.5.2. The GET-passive; 8.5.2.1. Historical development; 8.5.2.2. Agentivity, intent and control; 8.5.2.3. Human patient-subject; 8.5.2.4. Involvement and adversity; 8.5.2.5. Register and social class; 8.5.3. Impersonal-subject clauses; 8.5.3.1. Non-referring subject pronouns; 8.5.3.2. Pragmatic demotion and promotion; 8.5.3.3. Intent and control; 8.5.3.4. Semantically-active status 8.5.3.5. The distribution of impersonal-subject clauses |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461431803321 |
Givón Talmy <1936-> | ||
Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
English grammar . Volume I : a function-based introduction / / T. Givón |
Autore | Givón Talmy <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 pages) |
Disciplina | 428.2 |
Soggetto topico | English language - Grammar |
ISBN |
1-280-49728-9
9786613592514 90-272-7389-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
ENGLISH GRAMMAR A FUNCTION-BASED INTRODUCTION Volume I; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. GRAMMAR AND COMMUNICATION; 1.1.1. Structure vs. function; 1.1.2. Arbitrary vs. motivated rules of grammar; 1.1.3. Rules of grammar vs. communicative strategies; 1.1.4. Cross-language diversity of grammatical strategies; 1.2. WHOSE GRAMMAR?; 1.2.1. Prescriptive vs. descriptive grammars; 1.2.2. Historic time; 1.2.3. Age: The grammar of youth; 1.2.4. Spoken vs. written language; 1.2.5. Educated vs. uneducated grammar; 1.2.6. Formal vs. informal grammar
1.2.7. Grammar and social status; 1.2.8. Grammar and ethnic minorities; 1.2.9. Geographical dialects; 1.2.10. Grammar and foreign talk; 1.2.11. Grammar and individual style; 1.3. GRAMMAR FOR COMMUNICATION; 1.3.1. Major functions of language; 1.3.2. Words, clauses, discourse; 1.3.3. Grammar as a communicative code; 1.3.3.1. Joint coding; 1.3.3.2. Coding devices in syntax; 1.4. THEME AND VARIATION IN SYNTACTIC DESCRIPTION; 1.5. PARSING: TREE DIAGRAMS; 1.6. DEEP STRUCTURE, SURFACE STRUCTURE AND MEANING; NOTES; 2. VOCABULARY: WORDS AND MORPHEMES; 2.1. PRELIMINARIES 2.1.1. Recapitulation: Meaning, information and communication2.1.2. The conceptual lexicon: Semantic features and semantic fields; 2.1.3. Shared vocabulary: Meaning and cultural world-view; 2.1.4. History of the English lexicon; 2.2. LEXICAL VS. GRAMMATICAL VOCABULARY; 2.2.1. Lexical words; 2.2.2. Grammatical morphemes; 2.2.3. Derivational morphemes; 2.3. THE MORPHEMIC STATUS OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY; 2.4. LEXICAL WORD-CLASSES; 2.4.1. Membership criteria; 2.4.2. Natural classes: Prototypicality and variability; 2.4.3. Semantic overview; 2.4.4. Nouns; 2.4.4.1. Semantic characteristics 2.4.4.2. Syntactic behavior; 2.4.4.3. Morphological characteristics; 2.4.5. Adjectives; 2.4.5.1. Semantic characteristics; 2.4.5.1.1. Prototypical adjectives; 2.4.5.1.2. Less prototypical adjectives; 2.4.5.1.3. Derived adjectives; 2.4.5.1.4. Polarity of antonymic pairs; 2.4.5.2. Syntactic behavior; 2.4.5.3. Morphological characteristics; 2.4.5.3.1. Grammatical morphology; 2.4.5.3.2. Derivational morphology; 2.4.6. Verbs; 2.4.6.1. Semantic characterization; 2.4.6.2. Syntactic characterization; 2.4.6.3. Morphological characterization; 2.4.6.3.1. Grammatical morphology 2.4.6.3.2. Derivational morphology; 2.4.7. Adverbs; 2.4.7.1. Preamble; 2.4.7.2. Mariner adverbs; 2.4.7.3. Time, frequency or aspectuality adverbs; 2.4.7.4. Epistemic adverbs; 2.4.7.5. Evaluative adverbs; 2.4.7.6. Adverbs modifying adjectives; 2.4.7.7. Emphatic adverbs; 2.5. MINOR WORD CLASSES; 2.5.1. Preamble; 2.5.2. Prepositions; 2.5.3. Inter-clausal connectives; 2.5.3.1. Conjunctions; 2.5.3.2. Subordinators; 2.5.4. Pronouns; 2.5.5. Determiners; 2.5.5.1. Articles; 2.5.5.2. Demonstratives; 2.5.5.3. Possessor pronouns; 2.5.6. Quantifiers; 2.5.7. Numerals; 2.5.8. Ordinals; 2.5.9. Auxiliarie; 2.5.10. Interjections |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790201803321 |
Givón Talmy <1936-> | ||
Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
English grammar . Volume II : a function-based introduction / / T. Givón |
Autore | Givón Talmy <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 pages) |
Disciplina | 428.2 |
Soggetto topico | English language - Grammar |
ISBN |
1-280-49727-0
9786613592507 90-272-7388-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
ENGLISH GRAMMAR A FUNCTION-BASED INTRODUCTION Volume II; Title page; Copyright page; TABLE OF CONTENTS; 7. VERBAL COMPLEMENTS; 7.1. INTRODUCTION; 7.2. THE SEMANTICS OF EVENT INTEGRATION; 7.2.1. Preamble; 7.2.2. Sub-dimensions of event integration; 7.2.2.1. Semantic and syntactic definitions: manipulation and P-C-U verbs; 7.2.2.2. Implicativity, co-temporality and control; 7.2.2.3. Intent, control and agentivity; 7.2.2.4. Control and temporal contiguity; 7.2.2.5. Direct contact and spatio-temporal contiguity; 7.2.2.6. Resistance, coercive effort and independence
7.2.2.7. Event integration vs. causation 7.2.2.8. Referential cohesion and event integration; 7.2.2.9, Authority and verbal manipulation; 7.2.3. From manipulation to preference to epistemics; 7.2.4. Tense agreement and integrated perspective; 7.2.5. From indirect to direct quote: The de-coupling of point-of-view; 7.2.6. Summary; 7.3. THE SYNTAX OF CLAUSE INTEGRATION; 7.3.1. Preamble; 7.3.2. Verb adjacency or co-lexicalization; 7.3.3. Case-marking of the complement-clause subject; 7.3.4. Verb morphology: Degree of finiteness; 7.3.5. Physical separation: Subordinators and pause 7.4. MODALITY VERBS 7.4.1. Definition of modality verbs; 7.4.2. Semantic dimensions; 7.4.2.1. Referential cohesion and event integration; 7.4.2.2. Implicativity; 7.4.2.3. Strength of intent; 7.4.2.4. How-to complements; 7.4.2.5. From self-directed intent to other-directed preference; 7.5. FOR-TO COMPLEMENTS; 7.6. CONDITIONAL COMPLEMENTS; 7.7. WH-COMPLEMENTS; 7.8. POST-POSED P-C-U VERBS; 7.9. NON-VERBAL PREDICATES WITH VERBAL COMPLEMENTS; NOTES; 8. VOICE AND DE-TRANSITIVIZATION; 8.1. INTRODUCTION; 8.2. FUNCTIONAL DIMENSIONS OF VOICE; 8.2.1. The semantics of transitivity 8.2.2. The pragmatics of voice 8.2.2.1. Perspective and topicality; 8.2.2.2. Active voice; 8.2.2.3. Passive voice; 8.2.2.4. Antipassive voice; 8.2.3. Demotion, promotion and resulting state; 8.2.3.1. Agent demotion; 8.2.3.2. Promotion of a non-agent; 8.2.3.3. Verb stativization; 8.3. THE FREQUENCY-DISTRIBUTION OF VOICE IN TEXT; 8.4. THE SYNTAX OF DE-TRANSITIVE CLAUSES; 8.4.1. Syntactic coding devices; 8.4.2. Promotional vs. non-promotional de-transitives; 8.4.3. Case-role restrictions in de-transitivization; 8.4.3.1. Case-role restrictions 8.4.3.2. Understanding promotional passives: Semantic vs. pragmatic case-marking 8.4.3.3. Exceptions that reaffirm the rule; 8.5. OTHER DE-TRANSITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS; 8.5.1. Preamble; 8.5.2. The GET-passive; 8.5.2.1. Historical development; 8.5.2.2. Agentivity, intent and control; 8.5.2.3. Human patient-subject; 8.5.2.4. Involvement and adversity; 8.5.2.5. Register and social class; 8.5.3. Impersonal-subject clauses; 8.5.3.1. Non-referring subject pronouns; 8.5.3.2. Pragmatic demotion and promotion; 8.5.3.3. Intent and control; 8.5.3.4. Semantically-active status; 8.5.3.5. The distribution of impersonal-subject clauses |
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Givón Talmy <1936-> | ||
Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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English grammar . Volume I : a function-based introduction / / T. Givón |
Autore | Givón Talmy <1936-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 pages) |
Disciplina | 428.2 |
Soggetto topico | English language - Grammar |
ISBN |
1-280-49728-9
9786613592514 90-272-7389-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
ENGLISH GRAMMAR A FUNCTION-BASED INTRODUCTION Volume I; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. GRAMMAR AND COMMUNICATION; 1.1.1. Structure vs. function; 1.1.2. Arbitrary vs. motivated rules of grammar; 1.1.3. Rules of grammar vs. communicative strategies; 1.1.4. Cross-language diversity of grammatical strategies; 1.2. WHOSE GRAMMAR?; 1.2.1. Prescriptive vs. descriptive grammars; 1.2.2. Historic time; 1.2.3. Age: The grammar of youth; 1.2.4. Spoken vs. written language; 1.2.5. Educated vs. uneducated grammar; 1.2.6. Formal vs. informal grammar
1.2.7. Grammar and social status; 1.2.8. Grammar and ethnic minorities; 1.2.9. Geographical dialects; 1.2.10. Grammar and foreign talk; 1.2.11. Grammar and individual style; 1.3. GRAMMAR FOR COMMUNICATION; 1.3.1. Major functions of language; 1.3.2. Words, clauses, discourse; 1.3.3. Grammar as a communicative code; 1.3.3.1. Joint coding; 1.3.3.2. Coding devices in syntax; 1.4. THEME AND VARIATION IN SYNTACTIC DESCRIPTION; 1.5. PARSING: TREE DIAGRAMS; 1.6. DEEP STRUCTURE, SURFACE STRUCTURE AND MEANING; NOTES; 2. VOCABULARY: WORDS AND MORPHEMES; 2.1. PRELIMINARIES 2.1.1. Recapitulation: Meaning, information and communication2.1.2. The conceptual lexicon: Semantic features and semantic fields; 2.1.3. Shared vocabulary: Meaning and cultural world-view; 2.1.4. History of the English lexicon; 2.2. LEXICAL VS. GRAMMATICAL VOCABULARY; 2.2.1. Lexical words; 2.2.2. Grammatical morphemes; 2.2.3. Derivational morphemes; 2.3. THE MORPHEMIC STATUS OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY; 2.4. LEXICAL WORD-CLASSES; 2.4.1. Membership criteria; 2.4.2. Natural classes: Prototypicality and variability; 2.4.3. Semantic overview; 2.4.4. Nouns; 2.4.4.1. Semantic characteristics 2.4.4.2. Syntactic behavior; 2.4.4.3. Morphological characteristics; 2.4.5. Adjectives; 2.4.5.1. Semantic characteristics; 2.4.5.1.1. Prototypical adjectives; 2.4.5.1.2. Less prototypical adjectives; 2.4.5.1.3. Derived adjectives; 2.4.5.1.4. Polarity of antonymic pairs; 2.4.5.2. Syntactic behavior; 2.4.5.3. Morphological characteristics; 2.4.5.3.1. Grammatical morphology; 2.4.5.3.2. Derivational morphology; 2.4.6. Verbs; 2.4.6.1. Semantic characterization; 2.4.6.2. Syntactic characterization; 2.4.6.3. Morphological characterization; 2.4.6.3.1. Grammatical morphology 2.4.6.3.2. Derivational morphology; 2.4.7. Adverbs; 2.4.7.1. Preamble; 2.4.7.2. Mariner adverbs; 2.4.7.3. Time, frequency or aspectuality adverbs; 2.4.7.4. Epistemic adverbs; 2.4.7.5. Evaluative adverbs; 2.4.7.6. Adverbs modifying adjectives; 2.4.7.7. Emphatic adverbs; 2.5. MINOR WORD CLASSES; 2.5.1. Preamble; 2.5.2. Prepositions; 2.5.3. Inter-clausal connectives; 2.5.3.1. Conjunctions; 2.5.3.2. Subordinators; 2.5.4. Pronouns; 2.5.5. Determiners; 2.5.5.1. Articles; 2.5.5.2. Demonstratives; 2.5.5.3. Possessor pronouns; 2.5.6. Quantifiers; 2.5.7. Numerals; 2.5.8. Ordinals; 2.5.9. Auxiliarie; 2.5.10. Interjections |
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Givón Talmy <1936-> | ||
Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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