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Adverbs seem to raise unsolvable issues for theories of word-classes, both crosslinguistically and language-internally. The contributions in this volume all address this categorial problem from a variety of formal and functional points of view. In the first part, current definitions of the class for Romance and Germanic languages are being questioned and improved, drawing on data from English, German and Italian. The second part is devoted to adverbial scope in Romance (French, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese), Germanic, Modern Greek and Chinese, under special consideration of modal adverbs, subject-oriented manner adverbs and domain adverbs and adverbials. Syntactic and semantic relationships appear to lay the ground for a robust and fine-grained functional definition of adverbs and adverbials.
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.
Die Probleme, die das Adjektiv aufwirft, sind vielfältig; und zahlreich sind die Bezüge zwischen ihnen. Beides ergibt sich aus einem charakteristischen „Dazwischen“ des Adjektivs. Und wenn der vorliegende Band seine Beiträge geordnet in drei Sektionen: Grammatik, Pragmatik, Erwerb präsentiert, dann vor dem Hintergrund, dass sich in allen drei Zugangsweisen dieses „Dazwischen“ in spezifischer Form wiederfindet: Grammatisch sind die Adjektive als Wortart definiert über ihre primär attributive Funktion, die zwischen Referenz und Prädikation rangiert, in ihrem pragmatischen Nutzen bewegen sich Adjektive kaum greifbar zwischen Bewertung und Beschreibung, und im Adjektiverwerb schei...
Das Buch Spielräume der modernen linguistischen Forschung bietet Einblicke in die moderne linguistische Forschung. Die einzelnen Beiträge in dieser Publikation schlagen thematisch einen breiten Bogen von lexikologischen und lexikographischen Arbeiten über grammatische Beiträge bis zu pragmatisch orientierten Studien. Einige Beiträge sind didaktisch bzw. kontrastiv orientiert. Fokussiert werden diverse moderne europäische Sprachen, v. a. Deutsch, Englisch, Tschechisch, Slowakisch und Lettisch.
This book is the first typological study of adjective attribution marking. Its focus lies on Northern Eurasia, although it covers many more languages and presents an ontology of morphosyntactic categories relevant to noun phrase structure in general. Beside treating synchronic data, the study contributes to historical linguistics by reconstructing the origin of new types specifically in the language contact area between the Indo-European and Uralic families.