32.837, Books: The Emergence of Functions in Language: Frajzyngier, Butters
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Subject: 32.837, Books: The Emergence of Functions in Language: Frajzyngier, Butters
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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:46:41
From: Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: The Emergence of Functions in Language: Frajzyngier, Butters
Title: The Emergence of Functions in Language
Publication Year: 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-emergence-of-functions-in-language-9780198844297?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics
Author: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Author: Marielle Butters
Hardback: ISBN: 9780198844297 Pages: 336 Price: U.S. $ 100.00
Abstract:
This volume explores the question of why languages - even those spoken in the
same geographical area by people who share similar social structures,
occupations, and religious beliefs - differ in the meanings expressed by their
grammatical systems. Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Marielle Butters outline a new
methodology to explore these differences, and to discover the motivations
behind the emergence of meanings. The motivations that they identify include:
the communicative need triggered when the grammatical system inherently
produces ambiguities; the principle of functional transparency; the
opportunistic emergence of meaning, whereby unoccupied formal niches acquire a
new function; metonymic emergence, whereby a property of an existing function
receives a formal means of its own, thus creating a new function; and the
emergence of functions through language contact. The book offers new analyses
of a range of phenomena across different languages, such as benefactives and
progressives in English, and point of view of the subject and goal orientation
in Chadic languages. It also draws on a wealth of data from other languages
including French, Spanish, Polish, Russian, and a variety of less familiar
Sino-Russian idiolects.
Linguistic Field(s): Typology
Written In: English (eng)
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