Europe and the Mediterranean as linguistic areas : convergencies from a historical and typological perspective / edited by Paolo Ramat, Elisa Roma.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.
Description
xxv, 364 p.

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Series
Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 88
Summary note
This article provides a new vista of an old problem, viz. the supposed counter-iconic nature of a variety of reduplicative patterns which encode categories such as diminution, attenuation, etc. It is argued that even these categories are iconically represented by reduplication because iconicity is not tied to an increase in size of the entities referred to by the reduplicative construction. Iconicity applies if the semantic description of the quality encoded by reduplication is more complex than the one necessary for the description of the non-reduplicated pattern. This new understanding of iconicity is illustrated by examples of total reduplication drawn from a world-wide convenience sample of languages. Circum-Mediterranean languages are given special emphasis in the final discussion.
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Europe and the Mediterranean as Linguistic Areas
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • List of the contributors
  • Foreword
  • Trends in the diachronic development of Semitic verbal morphology
  • Demonstratives in the languages of Europe
  • Internal structure of verbal stems in the Germanic languages
  • Relativization strategies in the languages of Europe
  • The spread and decline of indefinite man -constructions in European languages: An areal perspective
  • Mediating culture through language: Contact-induced phenomena in the early translations of the Gospels
  • Inalienability and emphatic pronominal possession in European and Mediterranean languages: Morphosyntactic strategies andhistorical changes
  • Conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative constructions in Europe: Some areal considerations
  • Complex Nominal Determiners: A contrastive study
  • Relativisation strategies in insular Celtic languages: History and contacts with English
  • Canonical and non-canonical marking of core arguments in European languages: A typological approach
  • Re: duplication: Iconic vs counter-iconic principles (and their areal correlates)
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects
  • The series Studies in Language Companion Series.
ISBN
  • 1-282-15287-4
  • 9786612152870
  • 90-272-9222-1
OCLC
233648774
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