Between Grammar and Lexicon
Published on 15. April 2000
Book
Hardback
365 pages
978-1-55619-960-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume has its origins in a theme session entitled: "Lexical and Grammatical Classification: Same or Different?" from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. It includes theme session presentations, additional papers from that conference, and several invited contributions. All the articles explore the relationship between lexical and grammatical categories, both illustrating the close interaction, as well as questioning the strict dichotomy, between them. This volume promotes a holistic view of classification reflecting functional, cognitive, communication, and sign-oriented approaches to language which have been applied to both the grammar and the lexicon.
The volume is divided into two parts. Part I, Number and Gender Systems Across Languages, is further subdivided into three sections: (1) Noun Classification; (2) Number Systems; and (3) Gender Systems. Part II, Verb Systems and Parts of Speech Across Languages, is divided into two sections: (1) Tense and Aspect and (2) Parts of Speech. The analyses represent a diverse range of languages and language families: Bantu (Swahili), Guaykuruan (Pilaga), Indo-European (English, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Spanish) and Semitic (Hebrew).
The volume is divided into two parts. Part I, Number and Gender Systems Across Languages, is further subdivided into three sections: (1) Noun Classification; (2) Number Systems; and (3) Gender Systems. Part II, Verb Systems and Parts of Speech Across Languages, is divided into two sections: (1) Tense and Aspect and (2) Parts of Speech. The analyses represent a diverse range of languages and language families: Bantu (Swahili), Guaykuruan (Pilaga), Indo-European (English, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Spanish) and Semitic (Hebrew).
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[...] these are polished articles wich bolster the need for a cognitive linguistic paradigm. -- Alan S. Kaye, California State University, FullertonMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
860 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-960-8 (9781556199608)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1. List of Contributors; 2. Introduction; 3. Part I. Number and Gender Systems Across Languages; 4. 1. Noun Classification Systems; 5. Noun Class as Number in Swahili (by Contini-Morava, Ellen); 6. Deixis and Noun-Classification in Pilaga and Beyond (by Kirtchuk-Halevi, Pablo I.); 7. 2. Number Systems; 8. Number in the English Substantive (by Hirtle, Walter); 9. From Number to Gender, from Dual to Virile: Bridging Cognitive Categories (by Janda, Laura A.); 10. The Dual Number in Hebrew: Grammar or Lexicon, or Both? (by Tobin, Yishai); 11. 3. Gender Systems; 12. The Acategorial Lexicon and the Pairing Strategies: A Critical Account of Inherent Gender in Spanish (by Otheguy, Ricardo); 13. Grammatical and Lexical Behavior in the Development of the Spanish Third-Person Clitics (by Klein-Andreu, Flora); 14. The Grammar of English Gender (by Morris, Lori); 15. Recasting Animacy: The Codification of Perceptual Distinctions in Language (by Andrews, Edna); 16. Part II. Verb Systems and Parts of Speech Across Languages; 17. 1. Tense and Aspect; 18. Eventuality Classification: Meaning and Use of Spanish Simple Past Tenses (by Jonge, Bob de); 19. Resultativeness: Constructions with Phrasal Verbs in Focus (by Gorlach, Marina); 20. 2. Parts of Speech; 21. Complex -er Nominals: Where Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Meet? (by Ryder, Mary Ellen); 22. Modern Hebrew Adverbials: Between Syntactic Class and Lexical Category (by Ravid, Dorit); 23. Name Index; 24. Subject Index