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The Emergence of Functions in Language
Engelsk Hardback
The Emergence of Functions in Language
Engelsk Hardback

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This volume explores the question of why languages - even those spoken in the same geographical area by people who share similar social structures, occupations, and religious beliefs - differ in the meanings expressed by their grammatical systems. Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Marielle Butters outline a new methodology to explore these differences, and to discover the motivations behind the emergence of meanings. The motivations that they identify include: the communicative need triggered when the grammatical system inherently produces ambiguities; the principle of functional transparency; the opportunistic emergence of meaning, whereby unoccupied formal niches acquire a new function; metonymic emergence, whereby a property of an existing function receives a formal means of its own, thus creating a new function; and the emergence of functions through language contact. The book offers new analyses of a range of phenomena across different languages, such as benefactives and progressives in English, and point of view of the subject and goal orientation in Chadic languages. It also draws on a wealth of data from other languages including French, Spanish, Polish, Russian, and a variety of less familiar Sino-Russian idiolects.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9780198844297
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198844298
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Udg. Dato:
14 dec 2020
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
14 dec 2020
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