34.1570, Books: A Typology of Reference Systems: Frajzyngier

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Date: 12-May-2023
From: Rachel Havard [rachel.havard at oup.com]
Subject:  A Typology of Reference Systems: Frajzyngier


Title: A Typology of Reference Systems
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-typology-of-refere
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Author: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Hardback: ISBN: 9780192896438 Price: U.S. $ 130.00
Abstract:

This volume offers a typology of reference systems across a range of
typologically and genetically distinct languages, including English,
Mandarin, non-literary varieties of Russian, Chadic languages, and a
number of understudied Sino-Russian idiolects. The term 'reference
system' designates all functions within the grammatical system of a
given language that indicate whether and how the addressee(s) should
identify the referents of participants in the proposition. Zygmunt
Frajzyngier explores the major functional domains, subdomains, and
individual functions that determine the identification of participants
in a given language, and outlines which are the most and least
frequently found cross-linguistically. The findings reveal that bare
nouns, pronouns, demonstratives and determiners, and coding on the
verb ('agreement') have different functions in different languages.
The concluding chapters offer explanations for these differences and
explore their implications for the theory and methodology of syntactic
analysis, for linguistic typology, and for syntactic theories.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Written In: English (eng)

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