Shared grammaticalization : with special focus on the Transeurasian languages / / edited by Martine Robbeets, Hubert Cuyckens

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Disciplina: 494
• Soggetto topico: Altaic languages - Grammaticalization; Altaic languages - Grammar, Comparative; Altaic languages - Morphology; Altaic languages - Syntax
• Altri autori: RobbeetsMartine Irma CuyckensH
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Shared grammaticalization : typological and theoretical aspects -- pt. II. Shared grammaticalization in the Transeurasian languages -- pt. III. Shared grammaticalization in the Altaic languages -- pt. IV. Shared grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean.
• Sommario/riassunto: Double-negative periphrastic litotes have been for nearly three centuries the usual way to express necessitive predicates in Japanese and Korean. These constructions do not, however, go back to the earliest stages of these languages and should not be invoked as evidence of a possible common origin. But Korean also has a double-affirmative periphrastic necessitive construction. Premodern Japanese has no overt counterpart to it, but it does have an auxiliary adjective that expresses necessity. I argue that this auxiliary was a grammaticalization of a periphrastic analogous in form and meaning to
• Titolo autorizzato: Shared grammaticalization
• ISBN: 1-299-28376-4; 90-272-7214-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812973503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 132.