Expressivity in European Languages

Herausgeber: Williams, Jeffrey P

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Expressivity is a key feature of all language, yet its presence in European languages has been under-documented. With contributions from a team of leading scholars, this book addresses that gap, providing extensive data on the expressivity of a range of European languages. It is essential reading for linguists and anthropologists"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9781108834032
• ISBN-10: 1108834035
• Artikelnr.: 67676643

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Jeffrey P. Williams; 2. Hypocoristic reduplications and
embellished clippings in Hungarian (and elsewhere) Mario Brdar, Rita
Brdar-Szabó, Nikolett F. Gulyás and Laura Horváth; 3. Reduplication in
Finno-Ugric languages Iwona Piechnik; 4. Expressivity in Scots: a study of
echo words Jeffrey P. Williams; 5. Reduplication as expressive morphology
in German Gerrit Kentner; 6. Expressives in Modern Greek: some
morphological/morphosyntactic mechanisms for the expression of emotions
Haritini Kallergi, Georgia Katsouda and Magdalene Konstantinidou; 7.
Repetition and reduplication in Italian Anna M. Thornton; 8. Analysing
expressives in a spoken corpus in Majorcan Catalan Nicolau Dols ; 9. A
survey of Breton expressive words Mélanie Jouitteau ; 10. Vindicating the
role of ideophones as a typological feature of Basque Iraide
Ibarretxe-Antuñano; 11. Expressive constructions in Georgian and other
Caucasian languages Thomas R. Wier; 12. Parameters of variation in the
syntax of expressive size suffixes: case studies of Russian, German,
Spanish, and Greek Olga Steriopolo, Giorgos Markopoulos and Vassilis
Spyropoulos.