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Atypical predicate-argument relations
This book deals with atypical predicate-argument relations. Although the relations between predicates, especially verbal, and their arguments have been long studied, most studies are concerned with typical telic verbs in the past tense, indicative mood, active voice, with all arguments expressed. Recently, linguists have become interested in other types of predicate-argument relations displaying atypical properties, be they morphological or syntactic, in one language or cross-linguistically. The articles in this book investigate some of these: argument marking with some special groups of verbs, arguments not foreseen in the verb valency and contributed by the construction, verbs in idiomatic constructions, valency-changing operations, arguments in thetic sentences or in participle constructions etc. The authors work within different theoretical frameworks and on various languages, from more current languages like English, Spanish, French or German, to Hebrew or lamaholot, an Austronesian language.
Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew
The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general linguistics, typology, and Semitic studies. Starting with chapters that provide background information on the evolution and sociolinguistic setting of the language, the bulk of the book is devoted to usage-based studies of the morphology, lexicon, and syntax of current Hebrew. Based primarily on original analyses of authentic spoken and online materials, these studies reflect varied theoretical frames-of-reference that are largely model-neutral in approach. To this end, the book presents a functionally motivated, dynamic approach to actual usage, rather than providing strictly structuralist or formal characterizations of particular linguistic systems. Such a perspective is particularly important in the case of a language undergoing accelerated processes of change, in which the gap between prescriptive dictates of the Hebrew Language Establishment and the actual usage of educated, literate but non-expert speaker-writers of current Hebrew is constantly on the rise.
Manual of Romance Word Classes
Word classes are linguistic categories serving as basis in the description of the vocabulary and grammar of natural languages. While important publications are regularly devoted to their definition, identification, and classification, in the field of Romance linguistics we lack a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the current research. This Manual offers an updated and detailed discussion of all relevant aspects related to word classes in the Romance languages. In the first part, word classes are discussed from both a theoretical and historical point of view. The second part of the volume takes as its point of departure single word classes, described transversally in all the main Romance languages, while the third observes the relevant word classes from the point of view of specific Romance(-based) varieties. The fourth part explores Romance word classes at the interface of grammar and other fields of research. The Manual is intended as a reference work for all scholars and students interested in the description of both the standard, major Romance languages and the smaller, lesser described Romance(-based) varieties.
The MIHI EST construction
This book examines the Romanian mihi est construction (Mi-e foame/frică, me.dat = is hunger/fear ‘I am hungry/ afraid’). While it disappeared from all other Romance languages to be replaced with a habeo structure, the mihi est pattern is in Romanian the most common way of expressing psychological or physiological states. By means of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, the book investigates the status of the core arguments of the mihi est structure, i.e. the dative experiencer and the nominative state noun, as well as its evolution throughout the centuries. The data analysis reveals that the dative experiencer syntactically behaves like nominative subjects, whereas the state noun shows predicate behavior. As for the evolution of the mihi est structure, the analysis shows a certain tendency toward innovation, since in present-day Romanian it can coerce nouns coming from other semantic fields into the construction’s psychological or physiological interpretation. Could this be another unique trait of Romanian, which causes it to seemingly go against the tendency of most Romance languages toward canonical marking of core arguments?
L'énoncé réfléchi
L'ouvrage rassemble une vingtaine d’études réalisées par des spécialistes de la problématique de l'énoncé réfléchi dans ses multiples dimensions, qu'elles soient morphologiques, syntaxiques, sémantiques, pragmatiques ou lexicales. Toutes les questions soulevées par l'énoncé réfléchi sont abordées : la place de la construction réfléchie au sein des diathèses ou la matérialisation du réfléchi comme morphème verbal, dans une perspective délibérement typologique.
Drancy, un camp en France
En mai 1944, Louis Aragon écrivait que le nom de Drancy faisait « frémir les Français les plus impassibles d’apparence ». Aujourd’hui, sur le site du camp par lequel sont passés 84 % des déportés juifs de France, une cité HLM côtoie un wagon et une statue monumentale, en vis-à-vis d’un musée-mémorial de la Shoah. Drancy a conservé en effet sa vocation initiale de logement social tout en devenant le lieu de mémoire central de la Shoah en France. C’est l’histoire complète de ce lieu qui est retracée dans ce livre. Elle démarre avec le projet architectural d’avant-garde des années 1930 et les « premiers gratte-ciel de la banlieue parisienne » ; elle relate le pa...
Variation and Change
The ten volumes of the "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, cultural, interactional, or discursive angles, this sixth volume focuses on the dynamic aspects of language and reviews the relevant developments in variationist and diachronic scholarship. The areas explored in the volume concern several general themes: specific methodological approaches, from comparative reconstruction to evolutionary pragmatics; issues in intra-lingual variation in terms of standard and non-...
Catégories et connexions
L'ouvrage se compose d'une trentaine de contributions, qui visent à dégager les carrefours principaux d'une théorie syntaxique bâtie sur le modèle de Jean FOURQUET et qui s'ordonnent autour de cinq axes majeurs, fournissant les cinq chapitres de l'ouvrage : les unités syntaxiques, le prédicat et les relations d'actance, les connexions, les "catégories" du signifié, la description au sens. Cet ouvrage très dense répond par son contenu aux interrogations essentielles des linguistes et aux attentes de tous ceux qui, dans les disciplines voisines, cherchent à réfléchir sur le langage et les langues naturelles.
World Guide to Libraries
Recent political changes in Eastern Europe made available much needed information for this edition, clearly the standard directory of the libraries of the world, with facts and contact information for some 40,000 libraries (2,100 new to this edition) in 166 countries. Included are national, general research, university and college, professional school, government, ecclesiastical, corporate and business, and public libraries with holdings over 30,000 volumes, and special libraries with more than 5,000 volumes. The arrangement is alphabetical by country, and within countries by library type, further by place name, and finally by name of the institution. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
