Expressivity in European Languages

Buch | Hardcover

390 Seiten

2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-83403-2 (ISBN)

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Expressivity is a key feature of all language, yet its presence in European languages has been under-documented. With contributions from a team of leading scholars, this book addresses that gap, providing extensive data on the expressivity of a range of European languages. It is essential reading for linguists and anthropologists.

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.

Jeffrey Williams is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Texas Tech University. He has edited The Aesthetics of Grammar (CUP, 2014) and Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia (Routledge, 2021).

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-108-83403-5 / 1108834035
ISBN-13	978-1-108-83403-2 / 9781108834032
Zustand	Neuware