Expressivity in European Languages

ISBN-13: 9781108834032 / Twarda / 2023 / 390 str.

Opis

Providing extensive data on a range of European languages, this book highlights the key role expressivity plays in all language.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Jeffrey P. Williams; 2. Hypocoristic reduplications and embellished clippings in Hungarian (and elsewhere) Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó, Nikolett F. Gulyás and Laura Horváth; 3. Reduplication in Finno-Ugric languages Iwona Piechnik; 4. Expressivity in Scots: a study of echo words Jeffrey P. Williams; 5. Reduplication as expressive morphology in German Gerrit Kentner; 6. Expressives in Modern Greek: some morphological/morphosyntactic mechanisms for the expression of emotions Haritini Kallergi, Georgia Katsouda and Magdalene Konstantinidou; 7. Repetition and reduplication in Italian Anna M. Thornton; 8. Analysing expressives in a spoken corpus in Majorcan Catalan Nicolau Dols ; 9. A survey of Breton expressive words Mélanie Jouitteau ; 10. Vindicating the role of ideophones as a typological feature of Basque Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano; 11. Expressive constructions in Georgian and other Caucasian languages Thomas R. Wier; 12. Parameters of variation in the syntax of expressive size suffixes: case studies of Russian, German, Spanish, and Greek Olga Steriopolo, Giorgos Markopoulos and Vassilis Spyropoulos.