30.3829, Books: Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics: Nagy C.

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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:51:19
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics: Nagy C.

 


Title: Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics 
Subtitle: Grammaticalization of a Catalan Motion Verb Construction 
Series Title: Pragmatic Interfaces  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/data-argumentation/ 


Author: Katalin Nagy C.

Electronic: ISBN:  9781781797471 Pages: 264 Price: U.S. $ 100 Comment: only available from Equinox website
Hardback: ISBN:  9781781797464 Pages: 264 Price: U.S. $ 100


Abstract:

"Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics" has two interrelated aims,
one empirical and one theoretical. Its object-scientific aim is to provide a
comprehensive analysis of the beginnings of a semantic change process in the
grammaticalization of the medieval Catalan “anar ‘go’ + infinitive”
construction, investigating it from a historical pragmatic perspective.
Catalan is unique among Romance languages in that a purposive construction
involving this motion verb achieves a perfective past meaning. This evolution
is in contrast with the universal pathway of verbs meaning ‘go’ to
grammaticalize into future markers in similar constructions, detected in
several languages of the world. Although this volume discusses a micro-level
study on a grammaticalization process which, according to the previous
literature, does not fit any universal tendency hitherto revealed, it will
hopefully also provide new information about the macro-level process of
semantic change of motion verbs in general.

The theoretical aim of the volume is to examine some methodological questions
in historical pragmatics and contribute in this way to recent metalinguistic
discussions on data, methods and argumentation in linguistics. Methodological
issues have not only been present in historical pragmatics since the
beginnings – their resolution is seen as a crucial factor which will determine
the future of this linguistic sub-discipline.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat)


Written In: English  (eng)

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