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New applications of role and reference grammar : diachrony, grammaticalization, romance languages / edited by Rolf Kailuweit ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Role and reference grammar.
- Linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (458 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first part is comprised of seven articles dealing with possible applications of RRG to diachronic syntax and grammaticalization. Beside an overview article, the papers are mainly concerned with changes either in the interaction between topic-focus structure and the Layered Structure of the Clause or in the selection of Privileged Syntactic Arguments and case assignment. The second part consists of applications of RRG to Romance languages, and most of these applications are mainly concerne...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; APPLICATIONS OF RRG IN DIACHRONIC SYNTAX; PATTERNS OF GRAMMATICALIZATION AND THE LAYERED STRUCTURE OF THE CLAUSE; SCOPE AND THE FUNCTIONS OF BE GOING TO; SOME REMARKS ON RRG AND GRAMMATICALIZATION; THE GRAMMATICALIZATION OF THE BEKOMMEN-PASSIVE IN A RRG-PERSPECTIVE; CASE ASSIGNMENT IN CLASSICAL GREEK; CHANGING RELATIONS BETWEEN PSA-SELECTION, MACROROLES AND CASE ASSIGNMENT INSIGHTS FROM THE DIACHRONY OF SLAVIC, BALTIC AND OTHER INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; PART II
- CLUSTERS OF NON-PREDICATIVE VERBS AND THEIR DESCRIPTION IN RRGLEXICAL TEMPLATES AT THE CORE OF A SEMANTICS-SYNTAX INTERFACE; FROM LEXICAL TEMPLATES TO SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES; LEXICAL RULES FOR CAUSATIVE ALTERNATION VERBS IN SPANISH; A RRG DESCRIPTION OF LOCATIVE ALTERNATION VERBS IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN AND ITALIAN; SPANISH MIDDLE SENTENCES; LINKING SYNTAX TO SEMANTICS; ON THE ROLE OF NON-MACROROLE SYNTACTIC ARGUMENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX; LANGUAGE INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-1065-7
- OCLC:
- 823721221
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