23.3023, Books: Typology of Concessive Constructions: Xrakovskij (Ed)

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:40:15
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Typology of Concessive Constructions: Xrakovskij (Ed)

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Title: Typology of Concessive Constructions 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 50  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	
Editor: Viktor S. Xrakovskij

Hardback: ISBN:  9783862885107 Pages: 584 Price: Europe EURO 186.00


Abstract:

This collective monograph by the Language Typology Workshop of the St. 
Petersburg Institute of Linguistic Research (Russian Academy of Sciences) 
proposes a study of concessive constructions in different languages from a 
single theoretical perspective. The monograph was prepared under a general 
research program adopted in the Laboratory as of the 1960s and focused on 
the grammatical verb categories related to the semantic and syntactic 
sentence structure. It continues the earlier collective monographs published 
under this program. 

The volume consists of two parts and two appendices. Part 1 includes one 
chapter which sets forth the theoretical concept underlying all linguistic 
analyses provided in the collective monograph. The concept was developed 
as a device to describe concessive constructions in any language in a form 
which makes it possible to explicitly show both the common (above all, 
semantic) properties and typological (above all, formal) differences among 
concessive sentences attested in both related and unrelated languages. In 
addition, Chapter 1 provides a description of prototypical and marginal types 
of concessive constructions and proposes two multidimensional calculus 
classifications for concessive and concessive-conditional constructions. 

Part 2 consists of three sections and 20 chapters on concessive 
constructions in various natural languages. The descriptions are to a large 
extent uniform, since they are based on the same typological questionnaire. 
The languages addressed in detail include: Bulgarian, Armenian, Early Latin, 
French, English, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Hausa, Indonesian, 
Cambodian, Vietnamese, Ancient Chinese, Ancient Greek, Turkic languages, 
Even, Evenki, Eskimo, Japanese, and Agul (a Daghestanian language). 
Appendix 1 proposes a study of a concessive-conditional construction in 
Russian. 

Appendix 2 presents a universal typological questionnaire on concessive 
constructions used as a yardstick for all descriptions provided in Part 2. The 
questionnaire has several sections, each addressing a separate set of issues 
with a preliminary brief description of those issues illustrated with examples 
from various languages and followed with relevant questions. 



Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Subject Language(s): Aghul (agx)
                     Armenian (hye)
                     Bulgarian (bul)
                     Chinese, Old (och)
                     English (eng)
                     Estonian (est)
                     Even (eve)
                     Finnish (fin)
                     French (fra)
                     Hausa (hau)
                     Hungarian (hun)
                     Indonesian (ind)
                     Japanese (jpn)
                     Kalaallisut (kal)
                     Khmer, Northern (kxm)
                     Latin (lat)
                     Vietnamese (vie)


Written In: English  (eng)

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