31.1501, Books: The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity: Bar-Asher Siegal

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Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 22:19:03
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity: Bar-Asher Siegal

 


Title: The NP-strategy for Expressing Reciprocity 
Subtitle: Typology, history, syntax and semantics 
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 127  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.127 


Author: Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261687 Pages: 291 Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261687 Pages: 291 Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261687 Pages: 291 Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204783 Pages: 291 Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204783 Pages: 291 Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204783 Pages: 291 Price: Europe EURO 111.30


Abstract:

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the syntax and semantics of a
single linguistic phenomenon – the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity – in
synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. It challenges the
assumption common in the typological, syntactic, and semantic literature,
namely that so-called reciprocal constructions encode symmetric relations.
Instead, they are analyzed as constructions encoding unspecified relations. In
effect, it provides a new proposal for the truth-conditional semantics of
these constructions. More broadly, this book introduces new ways of bringing
together historical linguistics and formal semantics, demonstrating how, on
the one hand, the inclusion of historical data concerning the sources of
reciprocal constructions enriches their synchronic analysis; and how, on the
other hand, an analysis of the syntax and the semantics of these constructions
serves as a key for understanding their historical origins.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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