Binominal Quantifiers in Spanish
Conceptually-driven Analogy in Diachrony and Synchrony
Seiten
2015
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-040371-8 (ISBN)
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-040371-8 (ISBN)
Die Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie zählen zu den renommiertesten Fachpublikationen der Romanistik. Sie pflegen ein gesamtromanisches Profil, das neben den Nationalsprachen auch die weniger im Fokus stehenden romanischen Sprachen mit einschließt. In der Reihe erscheinen ausgewählte Monographien und Sammelbände zur Sprachwissenschaft in ihrer ganzen Breite, zur mediävistischen Literaturwissenschaft und zur Editionsphilologie.
Quantification is central to human experience (cf. Aristotle’s Organon): the most basic aspects of human life and reasoning involve quantity assessment. This study sheds lights on a highly frequent way to express quantification in Spanish, viz. the binominal quantifier (e.g. un aluviónN1 de llamadasN2 ‘a flood of calls’) which assesses the quantity of N2 in terms of N1. This volume offers a corpus-based, cognitive-functional analysis of binominal quantifiers (BQ) in Spanish. The first part is dedicated to the development of BQs and starts from the assumption that BQs are cross-linguistically involved in grammaticalization. This monograph frames the history of BQs in Spanish in terms of constructional levels of change and highlights the complex interplay between analogical thinking and conceptual persistence. The second part motivates both the ample variation in the paradigm of quantifying nouns and their combinatorial pattern by the very same mechanism of conceptually-driven analogy. The study thus yields an innovative functional model of BQs in Spanish, in synchrony and in diachrony, with major implications for reference grammars and theory building.
Quantification is central to human experience (cf. Aristotle’s Organon): the most basic aspects of human life and reasoning involve quantity assessment. This study sheds lights on a highly frequent way to express quantification in Spanish, viz. the binominal quantifier (e.g. un aluviónN1 de llamadasN2 ‘a flood of calls’) which assesses the quantity of N2 in terms of N1. This volume offers a corpus-based, cognitive-functional analysis of binominal quantifiers (BQ) in Spanish. The first part is dedicated to the development of BQs and starts from the assumption that BQs are cross-linguistically involved in grammaticalization. This monograph frames the history of BQs in Spanish in terms of constructional levels of change and highlights the complex interplay between analogical thinking and conceptual persistence. The second part motivates both the ample variation in the paradigm of quantifying nouns and their combinatorial pattern by the very same mechanism of conceptually-driven analogy. The study thus yields an innovative functional model of BQs in Spanish, in synchrony and in diachrony, with major implications for reference grammars and theory building.
Katrien Verveckken, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.6.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie ; 391 |
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 895 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | Cognitive-functional Linguistics • Cognitive-functional Linguistics; Cognitive Semantics; Grammaticalization (of Constructions); Conceptualization in Quantification • Cognitive Semantics • Conceptualization in Quantification • Grammaticalization (of Constructions) • Grammatikalisierung • Kognitive Linguistik • Semantik • Syntax |
| ISBN-10 | 3-11-040371-4 / 3110403714 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-040371-8 / 9783110403718 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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