Type noun constructions in Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages : semantics and pragmatics on the move / Wiltrud Mihatsch [and five others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mihatsch, Wiltrud, author.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. State-of-the-art report. Studies and monographs [TiLSM] series ; Volume 352.

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Series ; Volume 352

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavic languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (742 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

Summary:

This volume is the first dedicated to the comprehensive, in-depth analysis of constructions with nouns like ‘type’ and ‘sort’. It focuses on type noun constructions in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, integrating the different descriptive traditions that had been developed for each language family. As a result, a greater variety of type noun constructions is revealed than in the hitherto more fragmented literature. But attention is also drawn to the cross-linguistic similarity of the new pragmatic meanings, such as ad hoc and approximative categorization, hedging, focus and filler uses, and the new grammatical functions in NPs (e.g. phoric uses), clauses (e.g. adverbial uses) and complex sentences (e.g. "atives). The volume offers survey chapters of type noun constructions in each language family as well as contributions focusing on specific aspects in one or two languages, such as their grammar, semantics and pragmatics, diachronic development, discursive and sociolinguistic variety. These complementary methodologies elucidate the unique cross-linguistic field of type noun constructions both descriptively and theoretically. Hence, this volume can also serve as a model for similar surveys in other functional domains.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

1 General introduction: Taxonomic nouns and their derived functions in Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages

Part 1: Type noun constructions in Germanic languages

2 Type noun-constructions in English and Dutch

3 English type noun-constructions with lexical functions: A new functionalstructural typology

4 Type nouns in some varieties of English

5 The function and use of NP-external sort/ kind of: The case of sort/kind of DEF NP

6 Ways of classification: German Art and Typ

Part 2: Type noun constructions in Romance languages

7 A panoramic overview of the extended uses of taxonomic nouns in Romance languages

8 Classification, qualification, typification: Categorizing with genre de and espèce de 'kind of' in French

9 The network of specie, genere, sorta, tipo constructions: From lexical features to discursive functions

10 Pragmatic functions and contexts of use of TIPO in European Portuguese

11 Taxonomic nouns and markers of mitigation in Río de la Plata Spanish

Part 3: Type noun constructions in Slavic languages

12 Taxonomic nouns in Slavic: An overview

13 Towards a comprehensive typology of type noun constructions in Slavic languages, with a special focus on Polish and Russian

14 Polish w stylu and the rise of hedges

15 Czech type nouns: Evidence from corpora

Part 4: Comparative analyses

16 The complementizer function of typenouns in ad hoc concept construction: Evidence from Italian and Russian

17 Clear vs. approximate categorization in French and Latvian

18 Sociopragmatic variation, sort of and genre in English and French

Language index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-070110-3

OCLC:

1374425588