LINGUIST List 11.1845

Thu Aug 31 2000

Books: Language Typology

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  • LINCOM EUROPA, Lang Typology: Zur Typologie der sprachlichen Repraesentation konzeptueller Relationen, C. Lehmann, Y.M. Shin & E. Verhoeven
  • LINCOM EUROPA, Lang Typology: Dependency reversal in noun-attributive constructions A.L. Malchukov

    Message 1: Lang Typology: Zur Typologie der sprachlichen Repraesentation konzeptueller Relationen, C. Lehmann, Y.M. Shin & E. Verhoeven

    Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:14:54 +0200
    From: LINCOM EUROPA <LINCOM.EUROPAt-online.de>
    Subject: Lang Typology: Zur Typologie der sprachlichen Repraesentation konzeptueller Relationen, C. Lehmann, Y.M. Shin & E. Verhoeven


    Direkte und Indirekte Partizipation

    Zur Typologie der sprachlichen Repraesentation konzeptueller Relationen

    CHRISTIAN LEHMANN, YONG-MIN SHIN, & ELISABETH VERHOEVEN

    Die vorliegende typologische Studie ist im Ueberlappungsbereich zwischen den funktionalen Domaenen Partizipation und Possession angesiedelt. In einer gegebenen Situation unterhalten die Situationsbeteiligten Beziehungen zum Situationskern, aber auch untereinander. Bei der sprachlichen Umsetzung dieser konzeptuellen Relationen verhalten sich die Sprachen der Welt hoechst unterschiedlich, je nachdem welcher dieser Relationen sie im Ausdruck den Vorzug geben. Die Autoren zeigen die diesbezueglichen Ausdrucksstrategien fuer verschiedene Situationstypen und die systematischen Zusammenhaenge zwischen ihnen auf. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen die Sprachen B�t�, Deutsch, Koreanisch, Samoanisch, Tamil, Tuerkisch, Vietnamesisch, Wardaman und Yukatekisch.

    ISBN 3 89586 609 1. LINCOM Studies in Language Typology 04. Ca. 160pp. USD 44 / DM 68 / � 25.

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    LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany; FAX +49 89 62269404; http://www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM.EUROPAt-online.de.

    Message 2: Lang Typology: Dependency reversal in noun-attributive constructions A.L. Malchukov

    Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 20:51:08 +0200
    From: LINCOM EUROPA <LINCOM.EUROPAt-online.de>
    Subject: Lang Typology: Dependency reversal in noun-attributive constructions A.L. Malchukov


    Dependency reversal in noun-attributive constructions: towards a typology

    ANDREJ L. MALCHUKOV Russian Academy of Sciences

    This study is conceived as a contribution to a tyoplogy of attributive contructions, focussing on constructions exhibiting splits of head proporties. The term "dependency reversal in noun-attributive constructions" (DNRA) is used to refer to possessive-like attributive constructions (of the type (that) idiot of a doctor), with the attribute surfacing as the formal head and the semantic head surfacing as the formal possessor. The body of the study presents a discussion of DNRA contructions as attested in six individual languages: Even (resp. Other Tungusic languages), Aleut, Hausa, Gude, Chinook and Latin. The variation of the DNRA patterns, in particular along the parameter of the attribute's upgrading/recategorization, is further considered. Following the lines of structure-based typologies, an upward taxonomy of DNRA structures is presented to include other cases of constructions involving the attribute's upgrading and the head (-to-possessor) demotion. In search of DNRA related patterns the discussion is extended to internal relative clauses and constructions with "dominant attributes". Finally factors favouring the rise of DNRA structures are tentatively considered: apart from diachronic factors, underdifferentiation of lexical categories as well as pragmatic salience of the attribute are shown to contribute to DNRA processes.

    ISBN 3 89586 683 0. LINCOM Studies in Language Typology 03. 54 pp. USD 28 / DM 49.80 / � 19.90.



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