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Colouring meaning [[electronic resource] ] : collocation and connotation in figurative language / / Gill Philip
Colouring meaning [[electronic resource] ] : collocation and connotation in figurative language / / Gill Philip
Autore Philip Gill
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina 401/.43
Collana Studies in corpus linguistics
Soggetto topico Phraseology
Semantics
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-283-00657-X
9786613006578
90-272-8723-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910458986303321
Philip Gill  
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Colouring meaning [[electronic resource] ] : collocation and connotation in figurative language / / Gill Philip
Colouring meaning [[electronic resource] ] : collocation and connotation in figurative language / / Gill Philip
Autore Philip Gill
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina 401/.43
Collana Studies in corpus linguistics
Soggetto topico Phraseology
Semantics
ISBN 1-283-00657-X
9786613006578
90-272-8723-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910791880203321
Philip Gill  
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Colouring meaning : collocation and connotation in figurative language / / Gill Philip
Colouring meaning : collocation and connotation in figurative language / / Gill Philip
Autore Philip Gill
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina 401/.43
Collana Studies in corpus linguistics
Soggetto topico Phraseology
Semantics
ISBN 1-283-00657-X
9786613006578
90-272-8723-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Colouring Meaning -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- dedication page -- Table of contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. A search for meanings -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Meanings and words -- 1.3 Words, collocations, phrases -- 1.4 Meaning in the mind -- 1.5 Meanings in use -- 1.6 Navigating variation -- 2. Idioms and idiomaticity -- 2.1 What is an idiom? -- 2.2 Idioms and collocations -- 2.3 A search for meaning(s) in idioms and metaphorical collocations -- 2.4 Into the wide blue yonder -- 3. Co(n)text and meaning -- 3.1 The idiom principle -- 3.2 Extended units of meaning -- 3.3 Collocation -- 3.4 Grammatical and lexical abstractions -- 3.5 Secondary semantics -- 3.6 Semantic prosody (i), a.k.a. semantic association -- 3.7 Semantic prosody (ii): Discourse and pragmatic functions -- 3.8 Idioms and the idiom principle -- 4. Words in usual collocations -- 4.1 Meanings that come out in the wash -- 4.2 From origin to use -- 4.3 Caught red-handed -- 4.4 Once in a blue moon -- 4.5 Passando la notte in bianco -- 4.6 Salient meaning, phraseology and delexicalisation -- 4.7 Out of the frying pan… -- 5. Phrases in context -- 5.1 Variation inside the unit of meaning -- 5.2 Colligational preference and modification -- 5.3 Semantic preference and re-metaphorisation -- 5.4 Relexicalisation -- 5.5 Metaphor and re-metaphorisation -- 5.6 Semantic preference, variation, and "imageable" idioms -- 5.7 Toeing the line -- 6. Variation, metaphor and semantic association -- 6.1 Don't count your chickens… -- 6.2 Variation of key constituents -- 6.3 Variation of hue: Emphatic nuances in the expression of emotion -- 6.4 Variation of tone: Ameliorative and pejorative nuances -- 6.5 Variation of saturation: Emphasis and defocusing -- 6.6 Culturally constructed colour scales -- 6.7 Pandora's box.
7. Punning, word play and other linguistic special effects -- 7.1 Optimal innovation -- 7.2 Changes to the canonical form -- 7.3 Expansion, addition and combination -- 7.4 Canonical forms in non-canonical cotext -- 7.5 More on seeing red/blue/green… -- 7.6 The grass is always greener… -- 7.7 The effects of variation -- 8. Words and meanings -- 8.1 A few words about meaning -- 8.2 Meaning what you say vs. saying what you mean -- 8.3 Meanings in words -- 8.4 Famous last words -- References -- Appendix -- Author index -- Examples index -- Subject index -- The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.
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Philip Gill  
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
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Cultural conceptualisations and language [[electronic resource] ] : theoretical framework and applications / / Farzad Sharifian
Cultural conceptualisations and language [[electronic resource] ] : theoretical framework and applications / / Farzad Sharifian
Autore Sharifian Farzad
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina 306.44
Collana Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts; v. 1
Soggetto topico Cognitive grammar
Language and culture
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-283-00656-1
9786613006561
90-272-8718-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910459006303321
Sharifian Farzad  
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Cultural conceptualisations and language [[electronic resource] ] : theoretical framework and applications / / Farzad Sharifian
Cultural conceptualisations and language [[electronic resource] ] : theoretical framework and applications / / Farzad Sharifian
Autore Sharifian Farzad
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina 306.44
Collana Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts; v. 1
Soggetto topico Cognitive grammar
Language and culture
ISBN 1-283-00656-1
9786613006561
90-272-8718-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910791881003321
Sharifian Farzad  
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Cultural conceptualisations and language : theoretical framework and applications / / Farzad Sharifian
Cultural conceptualisations and language : theoretical framework and applications / / Farzad Sharifian
Autore Sharifian Farzad
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina 306.44
Collana Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts; v. 1
Soggetto topico Cognitive grammar
Language and culture
ISBN 1-283-00656-1
9786613006561
90-272-8718-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cultural Conceptualisations and Language -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- I. Theoretical framework -- 1. On cultural conceptualisations -- 1.1 Conceptualisation -- 1.2 Cultural conceptualisations: A distributed model -- 1.3 Examples of cultural conceptualisations -- 1.3.1 Event schemas -- 1.3.2 Role schemas -- 1.3.3 Image schemas -- 1.3.4 Proposition-schemas -- 1.3.5 Emotion schemas -- 1.4 Instantiation of cultural conceptualisations -- 1.5 Identifying cultural conceptualisations -- 1.5.1 Example: The Dreamtime -- 1.6 Concluding remarks -- 2. Distributed, emergent cultural cognition, conceptualisation and language -- 2.1 The locus of cultural cognition -- 2.2 Emergent cultural cognition -- 2.3 Emergent cultural cognition as a complex adaptive system -- 2.4 Cultural conceptualisations: Cultural models, categories and schemas -- 2.5 Emergent cultural cognition and language -- 2.6 Concluding remarks -- 3. On collective cognition and language -- 3.1 Cultural cognition as a complex adaptive system -- 3.2 Cultural cognition and cultural conceptualisations -- 3.3 Cultural conceptualisations and language -- 3.4 Concluding remarks -- II. Case studies: Cultural conceptualisations in Aboriginal Languages -- 4. Aboriginal language habitat and cultural continuity -- 4.1 Cultural conceptualisations of kinship in Aboriginal languages -- 4.2 Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations in English -- 4.2.1 Conceptualisations and categorisations of kinship in Aboriginal English -- 4.2.2 Aboriginal spiritual conceptualisations in Aboriginal English -- 4.2.3 Metaphor in Aboriginal English -- 4.3 Concluding remarks -- 5. Cultural conceptualisations in English words: A study of Aboriginal children in Perth.
5.1 Standard vs. 'non-standard' varieties: Underlying cultural models -- 5.2 Empirical investigation of Aboriginal cultural models -- 5.3 Methodology -- 5.3.1 Participants -- 5.3.2 Instrument -- 5.3.3 Procedure -- 5.4 The analysis of the data -- 5.5 Findings of the empirical investigation -- 5.6 Educational implications and concluding remarks -- III. Intercultural communication -- 6. Cultural conceptualisations in intercultural communication -- 6.1 Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations -- 6.2 Concluding remarks -- 7. Cultural conceptualisations in English as an International Language (EIL) -- 7.1 EIL as a language of various cultural conceptualisations -- 7.2 The need for a revised model of communication -- 7.3 EIL and the notions of 'Language Proficiency', 'Native Speaker' and 'Teaching Model' -- 7.4 Concluding remarks -- 8. Cultural schemas and intercultural communication: A study of Persian -- 8.1 Persian language and culture -- 8.2 Sharmandegi (being ashamed) -- 8.2.1 Expressing gratitude -- 8.2.2 Offering goods and services -- 8.2.3 Requesting goods and services -- 8.2.4 Apologising -- 8.3 Concluding remarks -- IV. Cross-cultural pragmatics -- 9. The Persian cultural schema of shekasteh-nafsi -- 9.1 Cultural schemas and cross-cultural pragmatics -- 9.2 The cultural schema of shekasteh-nafsi in Persian -- 9.3 Methodology -- 9.3.1 Participants -- 9.3.2 Instrument -- 9.3.3 Procedure -- 9.4 Data analysis -- 9.5 Analysis of the comments -- 9.6 Concluding remarks -- Appendix -- 10. Semantic and pragmatic conceptualisations within an emerging variety: Persian English -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 English in Iran and the emerging variety of Persian English -- 10.3 Cultural conceptualisations in Persian English -- 10.3.1 Âberu -- 10.3.2 Târof -- 10.3.3 Shakhsiat -- 10.4 Greeting in Persian English -- 10.5 Terms of address.
10.6 Conceptualisations of emotions in Persian English -- 10.7 Concluding remarks -- V. Culture, body, self and language -- 11. Cultural conceptualisations of 'Self' and del 'heart/stomach' in Persian -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 'Self' in Persian -- 11.3 Nafs 'self' in Sufism -- 11.4 del 'spiritual heart', ruh 'spirit', and serr 'inner consciousness' in Sufism -- 11.5 Conceptualisations of del 'heart' in Sufism -- 11.6 Conceptualisations of Sufi path in Persian literature -- 11.6.1 Del and conceptual metaphors -- 11.7 nafs and del in the model Persian language -- 11.7.1 Nafs -- 11.7.2 Del -- 11.7.3 Del as the seat of emotions/feelings and desires -- 11.7.4 Del as the source of compassion -- 11.7.5 Del as the source of desires -- 11.7.6 Del as the seat of 'intellect' -- 11.7.7 Del as 'stomach'/'abdomen' -- 11.7.8 Del as the centre of personality traits, character and mood -- 11.8 Concluding remarks -- 12. Conceptualisations of cheshm 'eye' and 'perception' in Persian -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Cheshm and conceptualisations of emotions in Persian -- 12.2.1 Cheshm as the seat of love -- 12.2.2 Cheshm as the seat of envy -- 12.2.3 Conceptualisations of negah 'look' in Persian -- 12.3 Cheshm and character traits -- 12.4 Other eye-related expressions -- 12.5 Thinking as seeing -- 12.6 Intuition as perception -- 12.7 Concluding remarks -- VI. Political discourse -- 13. Figurative language in international political discourse: The case of Iran -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Figurative language: Literary or ordinary -- 13.3 Figurative language and politics -- 13.4 Figurative language in Iranian political discourse -- 13.4.1 "Israel should be wiped off the map" -- 13.4.2 To inflict US with "harm and pain" -- 13.4.3 US deserves a punch in the mouth -- 13.5 Concluding remarks -- 14. Politics and/of translation: Case studies between Persian and English.
14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Concession and compromise -- 14.3 Jihad -- 14.4 Concluding remarks -- Final words -- References -- Index.
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Sharifian Farzad  
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
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Journalism and the political [[electronic resource] ] : discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia / / Felicitas Macgilchrist
Journalism and the political [[electronic resource] ] : discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia / / Felicitas Macgilchrist
Autore Macgilchrist Felicitas
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (264 p.)
Disciplina 070.4/49947086
Collana Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture
Soggetto topico Discourse analysis - Political aspects - Europe
Discourse analysis - Political aspects - United States
Foreign news - Political aspects - Europe
Foreign news - Political aspects - United States
Mass media and language - Europe
Mass media and language - United States
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-283-00659-6
9786613006592
90-272-8730-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910459226203321
Macgilchrist Felicitas  
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
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Journalism and the political [[electronic resource] ] : discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia / / Felicitas Macgilchrist
Journalism and the political [[electronic resource] ] : discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia / / Felicitas Macgilchrist
Autore Macgilchrist Felicitas
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (264 p.)
Disciplina 070.4/49947086
Collana Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture
Soggetto topico Discourse analysis - Political aspects - Europe
Discourse analysis - Political aspects - United States
Foreign news - Political aspects - Europe
Foreign news - Political aspects - United States
Mass media and language - Europe
Mass media and language - United States
ISBN 1-283-00659-6
9786613006592
90-272-8730-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910791863403321
Macgilchrist Felicitas  
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Journalism and the political : discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia / / Felicitas Macgilchrist
Journalism and the political : discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia / / Felicitas Macgilchrist
Autore Macgilchrist Felicitas
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (264 p.)
Disciplina 070.4/49947086
Collana Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture
Soggetto topico Discourse analysis - Political aspects - Europe
Discourse analysis - Political aspects - United States
Foreign news - Political aspects - Europe
Foreign news - Political aspects - United States
Mass media and language - Europe
Mass media and language - United States
ISBN 1-283-00659-6
9786613006592
90-272-8730-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Journalism and the Political -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1.1. Theoretical orientation -- 1.2. Research strategy -- 1.3. Russia -- 1.4. Foreign news -- part I -- Developing a story -- 2.1. Corpus: NGO legislation -- 2.2. Chains of equivalence -- 2.3. Lexical variability -- 2.4. Nodal points -- 2.5. Summary -- Pragmatic deconstruction -- 3.1. Corpus: Gazprom-Ukraine -- 3.2. Regularities and fissures -- 3.2.1 A threat -- 3.2.2 The (new) Cold War -- 3.2.3 Putin's war -- 3.3. Alternative accounts -- 3.4. Threat discourse and economic discourse -- 3.5. Summary -- The circulation of discourse -- 4.1. Corpus: Litvinenko -- 4.2. Linguistic/semiotic mechanisms -- 4.2.1 Preformulation -- 4.2.2 Category Entitlement -- 4.2.3 Iconic images and the mind of a photo editor -- 4.2.4 Tensions: Family, friends and PR -- 4.2.5 Nodal points -- 4.2.6 News practices -- 4.3. Alternatives -- 4.4. Summary -- Metaphorical politics -- 5.1. Corpus and stake inoculation -- 5.2. Nation-as-family -- 5.2.1 Strict father -- 5.2.2 Nurturant parent -- 5.2.3 Our family home' or the West and the rest -- 5.2.4 Press coverage 1995-2004 -- 5.3. Budennovsk, southern Russia, 14 June 1995 -- 5.3.1 Contextualisation -- 5.3.2 The coverage -- 5.4. Dagestan, 2 August 1999 -- 5.4.1 The coverage -- 5.5. Dubrovka theatre, Moscow, 23 October 2002 -- 5.5.1 The coverage -- 5.6. Beslan, 1 September 2004 -- 5.6.1 The coverage -- 5.7. Social imaginary -- 5.8. Summary -- Part II -- Responsibility management -- 6.1. Allocating responsibility for news stories on Russo-Chechen crises -- 6.1.1 Establishing authority -- 6.1.2 Category entitlement -- 6.1.3 Eyewitness authority -- 6.1.4 Active voicing -- 6.2. Allocating responsibility within news stories on Russo-Chechen crises -- 6.2.1 Distributing agency.
6.2.2 Managing responsibility -- 6.2.2.1 Amplifying -- 6.2.2.2 Assigning -- 6.2.2.3 Mitigating -- 6.2.2.4 Backgrounding -- 6.2.2.5 Omitting -- 6.3 Combining responsibility within and for news stories -- 6.3.1 Agency sources -- 6.3.2 First person stories -- 6.4. Summary -- Balance and binaries -- 7.1. Balance, fairness and conflict -- 7.2. Entextualizing balance -- 7.2.1 Versions of events -- 7.2.2 Discursive work -- 7.2.3 An opening for further causal factors -- 7.3. Three threats: Terrorism, militancy and savagery -- 7.3.1 International terrorism -- 7.3.2 Islamic militancy -- 7.3.3 Islamic savagery and a dysfunction in the soul of Islam -- 7.3.3.1 Dysfunction in the soul of Islam -- 7.3.3.2 Ultimately, the threat derives from Russia -- 7.3.3.3 Islamic savagery -- 7.4. Summary -- Complexity reduction -- 8.1. History, ethnicity and 'entrepreneurs of violence' -- 8.2. Historical dis/embedding -- 8.2.1 An old conflict -- 8.2.2 Alternative starting points -- 8.3. Highlanderisation and familiarisation -- 8.3.1 Budennovsk: Ideological square -- 8.3.2 Dagestan: Sourcing -- 8.3.2 Dubrovka: Circular causality -- 8.3.4 Beslan: Sequentiality -- 8.4. Alternatives -- 8.5. Summary -- Part III -- Positive' discourse analysis -- 9.1. Counter-discourse -- 9.2. Counter-discursive strategies -- 9.2.1 Negation -- 9.2.2 Parody -- 9.2.3 Complexification -- 9.2.3.1 Balancing two sets of facts -- 9.2.3.2 Inclusion of the excluded -- 9.2.3.3 Challenges of complexification -- 9.2.4 Partial reframing -- 9.2.5 Radical reframing -- 9.3. Visualising technologies -- 9.3.1 Linguistics: Conceptual blending -- 9.3.2 Psychology: The curiosity gap -- 9.3.3 Media practices -- 9.3.4 Discourse theory -- 9.4. Summary -- Concluding thoughts -- 10.1 Events -- 10.2. Journalists -- 10.3. Society and the political -- 10.4. Research process -- 10.4.1 Passions -- 10.4.2 Processes -- References.
Index -- The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture.
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Macgilchrist Felicitas  
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
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The noun phrase in Romance and Germanic : structure, variation, and change / / edited by Petra Sleeman. Harry Perridon
The noun phrase in Romance and Germanic : structure, variation, and change / / edited by Petra Sleeman. Harry Perridon
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Co., 2011
Descrizione fisica vii, 283 p
Disciplina 415/.5
Altri autori (Persone) PerridonHarry
SleemanAntonia Petronella
Collana Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics today
Soggetto topico Grammar, Comparative and general - Noun phrase
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
Linguistic change
ISBN 1-283-00658-8
9786613006585
90-272-8729-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- The noun phrase in Germanic and Romance -- 1. Relatedness and (dis)similarities -- 2. Definiteness and the definite article -- 3. Position of adjectives -- 4. Function and position of genitives and genitivals -- 5. An overview of the contributions to this volume -- 5.1 Variation -- 5.2 Change -- References -- Part I. Variation -- Scaling the variation in Romance and Germanic nominalizations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The verbal vs. nominal nominalization patterns: A first approximation -- 2.1 The Romance languages (Spanish vs. Romanian) -- 2.2 The Germanic languages (English vs. German) -- 3. The verbal vs. nominal scale -- 3.1 The verbal scale -- 3.2 The nominal scale -- 3.3 Nominal and verbal mixed properties: Summary and conclusions -- 4. Inner and outer aspect in nominalizations -- 4.1 The outer aspect projection -- 4.2 Inner aspect: The [±count] feature on ClassP -- 5. The building blocks of nominalizations and their cross-linguistic distribution -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- What all happens when a universal quantifier combines with an interrogative DP -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What all happens when universal quantifiers combine with wh-words in German -- 2.1 Data and a possible analysis -- 2.2 Derivations -- 2.3 Weaknesses in the model and a possible alternative -- 3. What all happens with universal quantifiers and interrogatives in English, Swedish and the Romance languages -- 4. Summary and conclusions -- References -- Micro-diversity in Dutch interrogative DPs -- 1. Micro-variability within the Dutch wat voor 'n N-construction -- 2. Predicate displacement within the wat voor 'n N-construction -- 2.1 Predicate Inversion and the spurious indefinite article -- 2.2 Predicate displacement in the wat voor 'n N-construction.
3. Dimensions of diversity within the wat voor 'n N-noun phrase -- 3.1 The 'bare' pattern: Wat voor 'n boeken -- 3.2 The soort-pattern: wat voor 'n soort boeken -- 3.3 The doubling pattern: Wat voor zulke boeken -- 3.4 Another soort-variant: wat soortige N -- 4. Micro-diversity in the split wat voor 'n N-construction -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Noun phrase structure and movement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The structure of nominals -- 3. So constructions in English, Danish and German -- 3.1 Deriving pre-article so -- 3.2 Support for the predicate raising analysis -- 4. Such constructions in English, Danish and German -- 4.1 German post-article solch -- 4.2 Deriving pre-article such -- 4.3 German pre-article solch -- 4.4 Danish pre-article sådan -- 5. Summary of the derivations -- 6. Language change -- 6.1 German so and grammaticalization -- 6.2 German solch and grammaticalization -- 7. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- A unified structure for Scandinavian DPs -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Basic data -- 2. Swedish, Norwegian, and Faroese -- 2.1 Optionality or elimination of one of the articles -- 3. Danish and Icelandic -- 4. The semantics of the articles and the adjectival inflection -- 4.1 Swedish, Norwegian, and Faroese -- 4.2 Danish and Icelandic -- 4.3 The adjectival inflection -- 5. Diachronic developments -- 5.1 The development of the definite article(s) -- 5.2 The development of the different realizations of definiteness -- 6. Towards an analysis -- 6.1 The structure of Scandinavian DPs -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- A semantic approach to noun phrase structure and the definite - indefinite distinction in Germanic and Romance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical assumptions -- 3. A broad outline of the proposal -- 3.1 The N-domain -- 3.2 The D-domain -- 3.3 The positions of attributes.
4. The semantic implications of definite and indefinite noun phrases -- 5. Noun phrases in Germanic and Romance - a comparison -- 5.1 The derivation of noun phrases in Germanic -- 5.2 The derivation of noun phrases in Romance -- 5.3 The use of definite and indefinite noun phrases in Germanic and Romance -- References -- Definite determiners in two English-based creoles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Setting the stage -- 2.1 Jamaican Creole and Sranan: Their social and linguistic history -- 2.2 The noun phrase in Jamaican Creole and Sranan -- 2.3 Working definitions -- 3. Distribution of definite determiners in Gbe, JC and Sranan -- 3.1 Specificity-based determiner use in Gbe -- 3.2 Definite determiners and bare definites in JC and Sranan -- 4. On the sources of the discourse-semantic and distributional properties of definite determiners in JC and Sranan -- 4.1 The sources of overt definiteness marking -- 4.2 The sources of bare definite NPs -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Change -- Form-function mismatches in (formally) definite English noun phrases -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'Non-specific' weak definites -- 3. Relational weak definites -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- The emergence of the definite article in English -- 1. The debate on the definite article in the history of English -- 2. Requirement 2 in OE: Se and proper names -- 3. Requirement 1 in OE: Noun phrases without an overt determiner -- 3.1 Bare nouns (Carlson 1977) -- 3.2 Special lexical items -- 3.3 Other D-less noun phrases -- 4. The possible causes for the emergence of the definite article -- Sources -- References -- On the syntax of Romanian definite phrases -- 1. Aim of the paper. Theoretical assumptions -- 1.1 The problem -- 1.2. Theoretical assumptions -- 2. Long distance agree in Old Romanian -- 2.1 The lower definite article.
2.2 The extension and range of the lower definite article -- 2.3. Interpreting the facts of Old Romanian in the framework sketched in Section 1 -- 3. What the lower article suggests about the emergence of the enclitic article -- 3.1 An open question -- 3.2 Consequences for the analysis of the article: The Romanian definite article is a suffix -- 4. Contexts of occurrence of the lower definite article -- 5. The (Lower) article and the reorganization of the genitive system -- 5.1 The inflectional and the prepositional genitive -- 5.2. Significance of the statistical correlation between the lower definite article and the inflectional genitive -- 6. Other or DP patterns where agree and move operate long distance -- 6.1 Adjectives before demonstratives -- 6.2 Definite NP + Dem -- 6.3 Genitive DPs -- 7. Syntactic ambiguity and the loss of the lower definite article -- 7.1 The pre-nominal lexical genitives -- 7.2 DP-internal inverted predicative adjectives -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Corpus -- Coexisting structures and competing functions in genitive word order -- 1. Possessive constructions and word order types -- 2. GN and NG in English -- 2.1 The diachrony of the genitive variation -- 2.2 The synchrony of the genitive variation -- 3. GN/NG in Latin -- 3.1 The situation in early Latin -- 3.2 The complex distribution of the two patterns in Classical Latin -- 3.3 Functions of the GN structure -- 3.4 Functions of the NG structure -- 3.5 Tendencies and inconsistencies -- 3.6 Sources and evolution of genitive constructions -- 3.7 Genitives and adjectives -- 3.8 Towards new word orders -- 4. Variation and change in Latin and English -- 4.1 Word order flexibility in Latin -- 4.2 The evolution of genitive patterns in English -- 4.3 The role of the sources and the phenomena of gradience -- 5. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References.
Anaphoric adjectives becoming determiners -- 1. Determiners -- 2. Anaphoric adjectives -- 3. Variation and change in Late Modern Dutch -- 4. Theoretical ramifications and conclusions -- References -- From N to D -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Looking inside N-words -- 2.1 Distributional evidence -- 2.2 The features and modification of n-words -- 2.3 Mapping the structure -- 3. The internal evolution of French n-words -- 3.1 Changing features -- 3.2 Modification -- 3.3 Theoretical implications and conclusions -- References -- Electronic data bases -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
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