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Qualitative-quantitative analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans grammar and lexicon / Robert S. Kirsner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kirsner, Robert S., 1941-
- Series:
- Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 67.
- Studies in functional and structural linguistics (SFSL), 1385-7916 ; volume 67
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dutch language--Semantics.
- Dutch language.
- Afrikaans language--Semantics.
- Afrikaans language.
- Dutch language--Grammar.
- Afrikaans language--Grammar.
- Dutch language--Lexicology.
- Afrikaans language--Lexicology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : J. Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sharing certain assumptions but differing in theory and practice, both Columbia School linguistics (CS) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) have increasingly supported their analyses with quantitative evidence. Citation of individual sentences, in isolation or in context, has been supplemented with counts of linguistic forms in texts, informant questionnaires, and perception tests. The present volume, continuing a dialogue between CS and CG, offers six such qualitative-quantitative studies, one on Afrikaans and five on Dutch. Topics include (a) demonstratives, (b) pragmatic particles and imperatives, (c) a puzzling “dismissive” idiom, (d) progressive aspect, and (e) indirect objects. While CS is better suited for analyzing relatively closed systems (e.g. tense, pronouns), CG provides more insight into the vagaries of the amorphous lexicon. The author also offers personal remarks on “linguistics as a path” and discusses how in one case a wrong prediction reflects his dual role as both linguist and student of Dutch as a foreign language.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Dutch demonstrative adjectives : analyses and responses
- The Afrikaans demonstratives and instructional meanings
- On imperatives and pragmatic particles
- What it takes to understand how one Dutch idiom works
- Further explorations
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781461957751
- 1461957753
- 9789027271044
- 9027271046
- OCLC:
- 923646352
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