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<p>@Maia, Paolo, Riccardo</p>
<p>Of course, when you start looking for insult of colloquial
language, counter-examples are numerous.</p>
<p>As for French, I would not assert that "espèce de" can never be
used with a positive substantive – provided it is immediately
followed by another expression that contradicts it, e.g.</p>
<p> - Espèce de (petit) génie à la con! <br>
</p>
<p> ≈ (small) crummy genius!</p>
<p>- Espèce de génie de mes fesses!</p>
<p> ≈ genius of my buttocks!<br>
</p>
<p>(Sorry for the over-familiarity, but such expressions can be
found in spontaneous corpora, either ironical or referring to a
previous co-text.)</p>
<p>Maybe it is a further argument for considering that "espèce de"
is a lexical construction.</p>
<p> Best wishes from Quartier Latin</p>
<p> MMJocelyne Fernandez</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 15/12/2021 à 12:17, Volker Gast a
écrit :<br>
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<p>If you need some type of theoretical framework for this study,
you could use Jonathan Culpeper's work on impoliteness, see for
instance this paper on 'impoliteness strategies':</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300633947_Impoliteness_Strategies"
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<p>Culpeper distinguishes eleven types of insults in Section 8 on
'impoliteness triggers' (referring to his own earlier work from
2011). He extended Brown/Levinston-style politeness theory to
impoliteness -- communicative actions intended to damage
someone's (positive) face.</p>
<p>I doubt that languages have grammaticalized ways of expressing,
for instance, positive impoliteness, in the same way as they
encode positive politeness (e.g. in the V/T-forms of European
languages). Perhaps you could consider the use of T-forms in a
V-context as impolite (and potentially offensive). I wouldn't
regard the types of structures found in 'personalized negative
vocatives' (Culpeper's term) "grammaticalized". I think they
rather belong in the lexicon, but that's obviously a matter of
definition.</p>
<p>Volker<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15.12.21 11:39, Riccardo Giomi
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<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div>Thank you very much for a nice set of data and
references. This will be extremely useful. <br>
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<div>I will reply to some of you privately, asking for further
comments/data/references. In the mean time, any further
feedback is of course more than welcome!</div>
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<div>@Maia & Paolo: I agree with Paolo that <i>pezzo di /
espèce de</i> are not grammaticalized, although not for
the reason he mentions. After all the working hypothesis is
precisely that languages can have grammaticalized means of
marking a speech act as an insult, so, according to this
hypothesis, the fact that <i>pezzo di X</i> never occurs
with positively connotated epithets does not entail that the
construction is not grammaticalized.</div>
<div>A different type of argument for regarding these as
lexical constructions is the fact that premodifying
adjectives must agree with <i>pezzo </i>and not with the
epithet (and I guess the same goes for French <i>espèce</i>),
cf. <i>brutt<u>o</u> pezzo di cretina</i>, as opposed to *<i>brutt<u>a</u>
pezzo di cretina</i>. This suggests that <i>pezzo </i>is
the head of the construction; if it had been a
grammaticalized element, I suppose agreement would have been
with the epithet. At any rate, these nouns are not really
reserved for marking a speech act as an insult -- they can
also occur in other types of speech act, e.g. declarative <i>Quel
pezzo di X mi ha rubato la bici </i>(roughly, 'That dirty
X stole my bike').</div>
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<div>Best wishes to all,</div>
<div>Riccardo<br>
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<div dir="ltr">In Italian too <i>pezzo di X </i>'espèce de
X' , as in <i>pezzo di idiota </i>and the very
insulting, derogating<i> (</i>but very much used)<i> pezzo
di merda, </i>appears just in derogating expressions:
you will never hear <i> *pezzo di genio, </i>nor<i>
*pezzo di benefattore ! </i>This is, I think, an
argument for not considering the construct <i>'pezzo di
X ' </i>as belonging to the grammar (Maia).
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno mer 15 dic
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of insulting people but that depends on X being an
insult. The same construction can be used to praise:
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] Grammatical marking
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the English "you idiot" (you [insult]) qualify as
an example? </div>
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adposition is not standard in English predication,
and it seems largely limited to second person sing
and derogatory adjectives? </div>
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has "espèce d'idiot" - not sure whether it
qualifies as grammatical or lexical. </div>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] Grammatical
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<div
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Riccardo and all,</div>
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<div
style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">D’Avis
and Meibauer's paper "Du Idiot! Din idiot!
Pseudo-vocative constructions and insults in
German (and Swedish)" (<a
href="https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.degruyter.com%2Fdocument%2Fdoi%2F10.1515%2F9783110304176.189%2Fhtml&data=04%7C01%7Cmaia.ponsonnet%40uwa.edu.au%7Ccc94c4625b3c491e5c2808d9bf4e9dc5%7C05894af0cb2846d8871674cdb46e2226%7C0%7C0%7C637751168309659999%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Qm0dhs6L0wUoC0ozwJeshZnGlztNFYs2tB0%2FwjH91yo%3D&reserved=0"
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might be of interest; see also the thirty
studies referring to this paper according to
Google Scholar: <a
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https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9645899484374998601</a> (and so
forth).</div>
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fyrir hönd Sebastian Nordhoff <<a
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<b>Efni:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] Grammatical
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<div>Dear Riccardo,<br>
Sinhala has several levels of
politeness in imperatives (marked by <br>
affixes), one of which would be
rendered as "Do X, you $#!% !!!". I
once <br>
nearly got beaten up when
underestimating the impact that the
use of <br>
this form can have. I can look up the
reference if you want to.<br>
Best wishes<br>
Sebastian<br>
<br>
On 12/14/21 19:49, Riccardo Giomi
wrote:<br>
> Dear all,<br>
> <br>
> A student of mine would like to
investigate the linguistic coding of <br>
> insults across languages. She is
particularly interested in finding out
<br>
> whether languages can have
dedicated (uses of) grammatical <br>
> forms/constructions for this
specific purpose. The best example I
could <br>
> come up with so far is the use of
the Portuguese third person reflexive
<br>
> possessive adjective (determiner
in Brazilian Portuguese) /seu/sua/
with <br>
> epithets which are meant as
insults. An example would be<br>
> <br>
> /Cala=te, seu burro!/<br>
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> 'Shut up, you idiot!'<br>
> <br>
> (Where, funnily enough, the third
person of the adjective/determiner is
<br>
> presumably the polite form!) This
is an interesting case, I think, <br>
> because as far as I can see you
never use /seu/sua /in 'plain' <br>
> vocatives, nor with terms of
endearment, nor, for that matter, with
NPs <br>
> which are not used as
invocations.<br>
> <br>
> I am wondering whether anyone is
aware of a language which has some <br>
> grammaticalized form or
construction that can be used in this
specific <br>
> way. Note that I am not
interested in, say, abusive pronouns
or <br>
> honorifics or general expressions
of the speaker's disappointment <br>
> ('frustrative' markers) but only
in grammaticalized means of marking
the <br>
> speech act as an insult.<br>
> <br>
> Many thanks in advance and best
wishes to all,<br>
> Riccardo<br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> Riccardo Giomi, Ph.D.<br>
> University of Liège<br>
> Département de langues modernes :
linguistique, littérature et
traduction<br>
> Research group /Linguistique
contrastive et typologie des langues/<br>
> F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral fellow
(CR - FC 43095)<br>
> //<br>
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