25.4953, Books: The Hittite Demonstratives: Goedegebuure

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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 18:20:20
From: Krista Zimmer [krista at isdistribution.com]
Subject: The Hittite Demonstratives: Goedegebuure

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Title: The Hittite Demonstratives 
Subtitle: Studies in Deixis, Topics and Focus 
Series Title: Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten 55  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
	   http://www.isdistribution.com

Book URL: http://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=54447 

Author: Petra Marian Goedegebuure

Hardback: ISBN:  9783447102285 Pages: 636 Price: U.S. $ 207.00

Abstract:

In order to mitigate the lack of context inherent to the study of dead
languages, the author has developed a descriptive model that combines (a)
cognitive approaches to reference, (b) a theory of information structure, and
(c) typological studies on demonstratives. With the help of this model, the
author not only provides for the first time a thorough description of the
long-known demonstratives ka- "this" and apa- "that", but also identifies a
third demonstrative, asi "that, yonder". This identification has led to a
reappraisal of the distal semantics of apa-: apa- does not mark remote objects
at all but points at objects in the vicinity of the addressee. In short, the
Hittite demonstratives are not distance- but person-based. As a third person
pronoun, apa»- also expresses emphasis. A detailed analysis within the
framework of information structure shows, for example, that apa»- in preverbal
position marks a referent as the Contrastive Focus of its clause (in "the dog
(not the cat) chased the horse", dog is in Contrastive Focus). Non-contrastive
focal apa»-, on the other hand, always occurs in initial position. The
addition of information structure to the grammatical description of Hittite
thus provides a better understanding of the meaning effects of word order
variation in this SOV language. (Harrassowitz Verlag 2014)

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Hittite (hit)

Written In: English  (eng)

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