Existential Constructions across Languages

Released on by Laure Sarda
preview-18

  • Existential Constructions across Languages Book Detail

  • Author : Laure Sarda
  • Release Date : 2023-07-15
  • Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Pages : 364
  • ISBN 13 : 9027252882
  • File Size : 34,34 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Existential Constructions across Languages by Laure Sarda PDF Summary

Book Description: This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge established research agendas. It addresses (i) a variety of constructions related to ‘prototypical’ existentials (including the have-possessive construction), and investigates (ii) the relationships between locative, existential, and information structure, (iii) the quantification of the pivot and (iv) the issue of negative existentials. It brings together different and complementary approaches (functional, cognitive, pragmatic, typological, comparative, diachronic, philosophical) based on a wide variety of data sources. The contributions illustrate how the so-called existential construction can take a variety of forms – more or less grammaticalized – and functions – ranging from the expression of literal existence to that of localization and discursive focus – in a wide range of languages. The book will be valuable for linguists, researchers or students, interested in the cross-linguistic manifestations of existential constructions at the interface between syntax, semantics and information structure.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Existential Constructions across Languages books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Existential Constructions across Languages

Existential Constructions across Languages

File Size : 90,90 MB
Total View : 4264 Views
DOWNLOAD

This volume reflects the centrality of the existential construction in current linguistic research and offers studies that both consolidate and challenge establ

Adverbials in Use

Adverbials in Use

File Size : 20,20 MB
Total View : 3377 Views
DOWNLOAD

Contributions in this volume will lead to a better understanding of the complex interplay of competing motivations affecting the use of adverbials in...

The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French

The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French

File Size : 74,74 MB
Total View : 2794 Views
DOWNLOAD

Research on the semantics of spatial markers in French is known mainly through Vandeloise’s (1986, 1991) work on static prepositions. However, interest in the