Reflexives : Forms and functions. Volume 1.
Title:
Reflexives : Forms and functions. Volume 1.
Author:
Frajzyngier, Zygmunt.
ISBN:
9789027298591
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (302 pages)
Contents:
REFLEXIVES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- The fine structure of grammar: Anaphoric relations -- Intensifiers and reflexives: A typological perspective -- The structural and lexical space between reflexive binding and logophorics: Sundry paradigms of reflexives and anaphora -- The typology and grammaticalization of reēxives -- Domains of point of view and coreferentiality: System interaction approach to the study of reflexives -- Conceptual distance and transitivity increase in Spanish reflexives -- Bound pronouns and non-local anaphors: The case of Earlier English -- Reflexives and emphasis in Tsaxur (Nakh-Dagestanian) -- What it means to deceive yourself: The semantic relation of French reflexive verbs and their corresponding transitive verbs -- Subject index -- Author index -- Language index -- TYPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN LANGUAGE (TSL).
Abstract:
The importance of reflexive markers in the study of language structure cannot be underestimated: they participate in the coding of the argument structure of a clause; in the coding of semantic relations between arguments and verbs; in the coding of the relationship between arguments; in the coding of aspect; in the coding of point of view; and in the Coding of the information structure of a clause.The present volume offers an approach to reflexive forms and functions from several perspectives: a formal approach where reflexives are discussed within a well-defined model of language representation; a typological approach; a historical approach concentrating on grammaticalization of reflexives and on the changes that pronouns and anaphors undergo; and a functionalist approach where functions of reflexive forms are described. The languages from which data were drawn represent a wide variety of language families and language types: English, Old English, Dutch, German, Tsakhur (Nakh-Dagestanian), Spanish, French, Bantu and Chadic languages. The variety of languages discussed and the different approaches taken complement each other in that each contributes an important piece to the understanding of reflexives in a cross-linguistic perspective.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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