Europe and the Mediterranean as linguistic areas : convergencies from a historical and typological perspective / edited by Paolo Ramat, Elisa Roma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramat, Paolo.

Roma, Elisa.

Series:

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 88

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Areal linguistics.

Europe--Languages.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xxv, 364 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This article provides a new vista of an old problem, viz. the supposed counter-iconic nature of a variety of reduplicative patterns which encode categories such as diminution, attenuation, etc. It is argued that even these categories are iconically represented by reduplication because iconicity is not tied to an increase in size of the entities referred to by the reduplicative construction. Iconicity applies if the semantic description of the quality encoded by reduplication is more complex than the one necessary for the description of the non-reduplicated pattern. This new understanding of iconicity is illustrated by examples of total reduplication drawn from a world-wide convenience sample of languages. Circum-Mediterranean languages are given special emphasis in the final discussion.

Contents:

Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of the contributors

Foreword

Trends in the diachronic development of Semitic verbal morphology

Demonstratives in the languages of Europe

Internal structure of verbal stems in the Germanic languages

Relativization strategies in the languages of Europe

The spread and decline of indefinite man -constructions in European languages: An areal perspective

Mediating culture through language: Contact-induced phenomena in the early translations of the Gospels

Inalienability and emphatic pronominal possession in European and Mediterranean languages: Morphosyntactic strategies andhistorical changes

Conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions in Europe: Some areal considerations

Complex Nominal Determiners: A contrastive study

Relativisation strategies in insular Celtic languages: History and contacts with English

Canonical and non-canonical marking of core arguments in European languages: A typological approach

Re: duplication: Iconic vs counter-iconic principles (and their areal correlates)

Index of Languages

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

The series Studies in Language Companion Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612152870

9781282152878

1282152874

9789027292223

9027292221

OCLC:

233648774