34.2756, Books: Granularity in the Verbalization of Events and Objects: Stathi (2023)

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Date: 20-Sep-2023
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Granularity in the Verbalization of Events and Objects: Stathi (2023)


Title: Granularity in the Verbalization of Events and Objects
Subtitle: A cross-linguistic study
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series   233
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.233

Author: Katerina Stathi
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027213822 Price: U.S. $ 180.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027213822 Price: U.K. £ 101.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027213822 Price: Europe EURO 127.20
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027249791 Price: U.S. $ 180.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027249791 Price: U.K. £ 101.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027249791 Price: Europe EURO 120.00
Abstract:

The study departs from the observation that in expressing ideas, some
languages encode more details than others. It investigates whether
languages encode events and/or objects at a coarse-grained (e.g.,
"put, glass") as opposed to a fine-grained (e.g., "lay, wine glass")
level "systematically". The level of detail is termed "granularity",
which is viewed as a cline from fine-grained (semantic specificity) to
coarse-grained meaning (semantic generality). Four languages are
investigated: German, English, Greek, and Turkish. The study draws on
elicited data from a naming task. The verbalization of events is based
on event and object descriptions in selected semantic domains. The
results reveal significant granularity effects between languages and
language types (satellite-framed vs. verb-framed). The study is
relevant for scholars interested in linguistic typology, lexical and
semantic typology, contrastive linguistics, event representation,
psycholinguistics, and cognitive semantics.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax

Written In: English (eng)

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