Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Semantics

Las Actas recogen ca. 240 comunicaciones, divididas en ocho secciones: 1. Fonetica y fonologia, 2. Morfologia, 3. Sintaxis, semantica y pragmatica, 4. Semantica lexica, lexicologia y onomastica, 5. Edicion y critica textual, 6. Retorica, poetica y teoria literaria, 7. Linguistica aplicada, 8. Historia de la linguistica. A ellas se unen cuatro conferencias plenarias y dos mesas redondas. Ofrecen un panorama de temas viejos y modernos de la Romanistica abordados desde distintas visiones teoricas y son muestra del aporte que la disciplina puede hacer al desarrollo de la linguistica y la...

The Romanistische Arbeitshefte (Romance Studies Workbooks), edited by Georgia Veldre-Gerner and Volker Noll since 2004, have been constant and reliable companions for studentsof Romance Studies for over forty years. In their conception, they are designed as a reflection of the present state of research with an orientation towards application andthespecificneeds and difficulties of students. Thus they provide a reliable instrument for getting to grips with various areas of Romance linguistic studies and encourage students to utilise their newly-acquired knowledge with integrated...

Schon seit ihrer Grundung in den 1970er-Jahren ist die Reihe Germanistische Linguistik (RGL) exponiertes Forum des Faches, dessen Namen sie im Titel fuhrt. Hinsichtlich der thematischen Breite (Sprachebenen, Varietaten, Kommunikationsformen, Epochen), der Forschungsperspektiven (Theorie und Empirie, Grundlagenforschung und Anwendung, Inter- und Transdisziplinaritat) und des methodologischen Spektrums ist die Reihe offen angelegt. Das Aufgreifen neuer Trends hat in ihr ebenso Platz wie das Fortfuhren von Bewahrtem. Die Publikationsformen reichen von Monographien und Sammelbanden...

Das vorliegende Studienbuch stellt die Frage, in welcher Weise sich Bedeutungen von Adjektiven in den letzten 200 Jahren verandert haben. Dahinter steht die Absicht, allgemeine Muster und Prinzipien des Wandels zu entdecken und diese im Rahmen einer so genannten "Invisible-hand-Theorie" zu erklaren. Wer Bedeutungswandel erklaren will, muss den Weg finden von den allgemeinen Kommunikationszielen der sprechenden Individuen uber die sprachlichen Mittel, die sie dazu einsetzen, zu den sprachlichen Effekten, die dadurch auf lange Sicht erzeugt werden. Das Studienbuch zeichnet diesen Weg anhand...

The primary aim of this introduction to the scholarly engagement with the linguistic meaning of units of Italian vocabulary is both to convey insight into the most important issues and research approaches and to provide a guide to the basic terminology. Students are acquainted with the practical applications of the subject via reference to as many examples as possible and indication of the immediate relevance of the topics dealt with for the compilation of Italian dictionaries.

Addressing an issue that has puzzled the linguistics community for many years, this detailed book offers a novel approach to the exceptional wide scope behaviour of indefinites. It is the first book explicitly dedicated to exceptional wide scope phenomena.

This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax. It provides a typology of four main quantified noun phrases in French (existential, universal, negative and wh-), detailing their syntactic, semantic and prosodic behaviors and showing that they can be reduced to two classes Split-DP structures or Floating quantification.

Relying on syntax and semantics, the book establishes a three-way structural typology of wh in-situ phrases and extends it to existentials. It pays special attention to the prosodic properties associated with their...

Linking how semantic arguments map to the syntax is one of the challenges for theories of the syntax-semantics interface. In this new approach, Janet Randall explores the hypothesis that the positions of syntactic arguments are strictly determined by lexical argument geometry. Yielding novel if sometimes surprising conclusions, her Isomorphic Linking Hypothesis establishes the linking patterns of a wide range of verbs and, with those results, shows how to reason "backwards" from how a given verb's arguments link to what its lexical representation must be. Along the way, the investigation...

Dieses Buch soll das Interesse an Fragestellungen der historischen Semantik wecken und seinen Lesern die Moglichkeit eroffnen, historisch-semantische Forschungsergebnisse auf dem heutigen Stand der Forschung nachzuvollziehen und selbst an bedeutungsgeschichtlichen Problemen zu arbeiten. Das Buch eignet sich ebenso zum Selbststudium wie zur Benutzung in Seminaren. Es setzt keine speziellen Kenntnisse im Bereich der Semantik voraus. In den Anfangskapiteln werden theoretische Grundlagen und Arbeitsweisen der historischen Semantik eingefuhrt. Nach zwei Kapiteln zu Sprachkritik und...

This is a revised version of the original 1982 edition. The numerous examples taken from literature and the press have been updated and a major appendix added on the development of research in this area since the 80s. The phraseological examples are discussed in terms of their distinguishing formal and semantic characteristics and described from a semasiological and onomasiological perspective. The specific potential ways in which they figure in sentences and texts are also discussed. Special reference is made to the relation between phraseology and word formation in the formation of...