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Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages
This volume proposes a new way to address the classical question concerning the relation between language, cognition, and culture from the perspective of two basic systems: deixis and the pronominal system. It investigates the linguistic structuring of basic concepts of person, place and time in Romance languages, disclosing structural differences that may be related to mental parameters and other extra-linguistic circumstances and thus possibly linked to a light revision of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
The methodological and theoretical focus is based on the discursive and pragmatic functional approach to deixis. The articles concern linguistic variation and language change, and most of the studies adopt cross linguistic perspectives, primarily among Romance languages, but also with a classical perspective from Ancient Greek discussing the existence of universal categorical patterns. The studies reveal similarities and differences between Romance languages mutually, and set the stage for comparisons between Romance and non-Romance languages. These similarities and differences are subject to change in connection with cultural developments in society and offer in this volume a coordinated effort in exploring the linguistic expressions of these extra-linguistic concepts.
The methodological and theoretical focus is based on the discursive and pragmatic functional approach to deixis. The articles concern linguistic variation and language change, and most of the studies adopt cross linguistic perspectives, primarily among Romance languages, but also with a classical perspective from Ancient Greek discussing the existence of universal categorical patterns. The studies reveal similarities and differences between Romance languages mutually, and set the stage for comparisons between Romance and non-Romance languages. These similarities and differences are subject to change in connection with cultural developments in society and offer in this volume a coordinated effort in exploring the linguistic expressions of these extra-linguistic concepts.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 136] 2013. vi, 289 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 October 2013
Published online on 28 October 2013
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Table of Contents
- Introduction to deixis and pronouns in Romance languagesKirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Jan Lindschouw | pp. 1–16
- Part I. Deixis and grammatical paradigms
- Deixis and person in the development of Greek personal pronominal paradigmsBrian D. Joseph | pp. 19–32
- First person strong pronouns in spoken French: A case study in cliticizationUlrich Detges | pp. 33–48
- Preservation, modification, and innovation. Paradigmatic reorganisation of the system of personal pronouns – from Latin into Modern ItalianLene Schøsler and Erling Strudsholm | pp. 49–68
- On the grammar of kinship: Possessive enclisis in Italian dialectsVerner Egerland | pp. 69–84
- Part II. Deixis and impersonality
- Impersonality in Spanish personal pronounsSusana S. Fernández | pp. 87–108
- The Spanish impersonal se-construction: Constructional motivation for case-marking – quantitative evidenceJohan Pedersen | pp. 109–124
- Diaphasic variation and change in French pronouns: Different uses of on with special reference to the on/nous alternationAnita Berit Hansen | pp. 125–144
- Clitic subjects in French text messages: Does technical change provoke and/or reveal linguistic change?Elisabeth Stark | pp. 147–170
- The use of personal deixis as an ideological instrument in Spanish political discourseNieves Hernández Flores | pp. 171–188
- Cognitive collages and other mental representations of address forms and strategies: Examples from PortugueseSandi Michele de Oliveira | pp. 189–204
- Part IV. Deixis and the verbal system
- The relevance of deixis in the description of the predicative relative clauseKirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Erling Strudsholm | pp. 207–226
- The marking of person deixis in the French future system – a diachronic approachJan Lindschouw | pp. 227–250
- Part V. Deixis in a metalinguistic perspective
- Place deixis in the 16th century grammars of Italy: The case of cotestoRoman Sosnowski | pp. 253–272
- Deixis and reference in the treatment of personal pronouns and demonstratives in Francesco Soave: Gramatica ragionata della lingua italiana, 1771Viggo Bank Jensen | pp. 273–284
- Name index | pp. 285–286
- Subject index | pp. 287–289
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