The NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity typology, history, syntax and semantics
"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 lit...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2020]
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| Series: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 127. |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- The types of constructions and their origin
- The diachronic development from a two-unit to a one-unit construction
- Relics as a syntactic category : Modern Hebrew and Italian constructions as frozen formulae
- Heterogeneity : languages with more than one NP-strategy construction
- Changing meaning of the NP-strategy constructions
- A comparative linguistics study of NP-strategy constructions
- The basic meaning of the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity
- Specifying the meaning of the NP-strategy through context.