Expressivity in European Languages (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Williams, Jeffrey P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There is an emerging perspective in the discipline of linguistics that takes expressivity as one of the key components of human communication and grammatical structure. Expressivity refers to the use of grammar in natural languages to convey sensory information in a creative way, for example through reduplication, iconicity, ideophones and onomatopoeia. Expressives are more commonly associated with non-European languages, so their presence in European languages has so far been under-documented. With contributions from a team of leading scholars, this pioneering book redresses that balance by providing copious, detailed information about the expressive systems of a set of European languages. It comprises a collection of original surveys of expressivity in languages as diverse as Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish, Scots, German, Greek, Italian, Catalan, Breton and Basque, all with the common goal of challenging structuralist assumptions about the role of syntax, and showing how expressivity is both typologically diverse and universal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108996815
• Artikelnr.: 68969094

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.