Nominalization in Asian languages : diachronic and typological perspectives / edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta, Janick Wrona.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yap, Foong Ha.

Grunow-Hårsta, Karen.

Wrona, Janick, 1971-

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 96.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 96

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Nominals.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun.

Typology (Linguistics).

Historical linguistics.

Asia--Languages.

Asia.

Physical Description:

xvi, 796 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In a number of East and South-East Asian languages, certain grammatical elements such as pronouns, generic nouns, or demonstratives (e.g. one, thing, this) have acquired additional pragmatic functions. Well-documented examples of this grammaticalization process are the Mandarin de, the Malay punya/nya/mia and the Japanese no (cf. Yap, Matthews et al. 2004); the grammaticalized element occurs in the sentence-final position encoding speaker's certainty about the proposition. A similar development has taken place in Abui (a Papuan language of Eastern Indonesia); markers describing speaker's attitude towards a proposition (evidentiality and assertion) are recruited from two sources: (i) demonstratives and (ii) the utterance verb ba 'say'.

Contents:

pt. 1. Sinitic languages

pt. 2. Tibeto-Burman languages

pt. 3. Iranian languages

pt. 4. Korean and Japanese languages

pt. 5. Austronesian languages

pt. 6. Papuan languages.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613144119

9781283144117

1283144115

9789027287243

9027287244

OCLC:

731647059