24.1271, Books: Interpreting particles in dead and living languages: Koier

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:07:38
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Interpreting particles in dead and living languages: Koier

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Title: Interpreting particles in dead and living languages 
Subtitle: A construction grammar approach to the semantics of Dutch ergens and
Ancient Greek pou
 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 


Author: Elizabeth Koier

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460931048 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 27.08 Comment: only available through internet


Abstract:

Words may have multiple interpretations. For instance, the word table can
refer to a piece of furniture or to a page listing the chapters of a book as
in table of contents. Generally, native speakers do not perceive this as a
problem, because the context provides enough clues as to what is meant. For
non-native speakers and students of dead languages, however, the existence of
multiple interpretations sometimes does raise problems. This suggests that the
context is not the only clue native speakers use to interpret words. In this
dissertation, it is studied what types of context Dutch speakers need to
interpret the poly-interpretable word ergens ‘somewhere/anywhere’, modal
particle. The results of this investigation were used to find out more about
the Ancient Greek form που ‘somewhere, anywhere’, modal particle. This thesis
shows that the study of contextual cues that allow native speakers to
interpret their language provides insights that may be used in the study of
dead languages. The modal interpretations of ergens and που turned out to be
quite different, but the context of both words clearly showed recurring
(albeit different) patterns. Knowledge of the common interpretation of words
in specific contexts seems crucial for their interpretation, suggesting that
it is not words themselves that carry meaning, but words-in-context.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     Greek, Ancient (grc)


Written In: English  (eng)

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