35.92, Books: Expressivity in European Languages: Williams (2023)

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Date: 08-Dec-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Expressivity in European Languages: Williams (2023)


Title: Expressivity in European Languages
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781108834032

editor: Jeffrey P. Williams
Abstract:

There is an emerging perspective in the discipline of linguistics that
takes expressivity as one of the key components of human communication
and grammatical structure. Expressivity refers to the use of grammar
in natural languages to convey sensory information in a creative way,
for example through reduplication, iconicity, ideophones and
onomatopoeia. Expressives are more commonly associated with
non-European languages, so their presence in European languages has so
far been under-documented. With contributions from a team of leading
scholars, this pioneering book redresses that balance by providing
copious, detailed information about the expressive systems of a set of
European languages. It comprises a collection of original surveys of
expressivity in languages as diverse as Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish,
Scots, German, Greek, Italian, Catalan, Breton and Basque, all with
the common goal of challenging structuralist assumptions about the
role of syntax, and showing how expressivity is both typologically
diverse and universal.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)



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