Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages

Editors

Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh | University of Copenhagen

Jan Lindschouw | University of Copenhagen

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This volume proposes a new way to address the classical question concerning the relation between language, cognition, and culture from the perspective of two basic systems: deixis and the pronominal system. It investigates the linguistic structuring of basic concepts of person, place and time in Romance languages, disclosing structural differences that may be related to mental parameters and other extra-linguistic circumstances and thus possibly linked to a light revision of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
The methodological and theoretical focus is based on the discursive and pragmatic functional approach to deixis. The articles concern linguistic variation and language change, and most of the studies adopt cross linguistic perspectives, primarily among Romance languages, but also with a classical perspective from Ancient Greek discussing the existence of universal categorical patterns. The studies reveal similarities and differences between Romance languages mutually, and set the stage for comparisons between Romance and non-Romance languages. These similarities and differences are subject to change in connection with cultural developments in society and offer in this volume a coordinated effort in exploring the linguistic expressions of these extra-linguistic concepts.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 136] 2013. vi, 289 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.136

Table of Contents

Introduction to deixis and pronouns in Romance languages

Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Jan Lindschouw | pp. 1–16

Part I. Deixis and grammatical paradigms

Deixis and person in the development of Greek personal pronominal paradigms

Brian D. Joseph | pp. 19–32

First person strong pronouns in spoken French: A case study in cliticization

Ulrich Detges | pp. 33–48

Preservation, modification, and innovation. Paradigmatic reorganisation of the system of personal pronouns – from Latin into Modern Italian

Lene Schøsler and Erling Strudsholm | pp. 49–68

On the grammar of kinship: Possessive enclisis in Italian dialects

Verner Egerland | pp. 69–84

Part II. Deixis and impersonality

Impersonality in Spanish personal pronouns

Susana S. Fernández | pp. 87–108

The Spanish impersonal se-construction: Constructional motivation for case-marking – quantitative evidence

Johan Pedersen | pp. 109–124

Diaphasic variation and change in French pronouns: Different uses of on with special reference to the on/nous alternation

Anita Berit Hansen | pp. 125–144

Clitic subjects in French text messages: Does technical change provoke and/or reveal linguistic change?

Elisabeth Stark | pp. 147–170

The use of personal deixis as an ideological instrument in Spanish political discourse

Nieves Hernández Flores | pp. 171–188

Cognitive collages and other mental representations of address forms and strategies: Examples from Portuguese

Sandi Michele de Oliveira | pp. 189–204

Part IV. Deixis and the verbal system

The relevance of deixis in the description of the predicative relative clause

Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Erling Strudsholm | pp. 207–226

The marking of person deixis in the French future system – a diachronic approach

Jan Lindschouw | pp. 227–250

Part V. Deixis in a metalinguistic perspective

Place deixis in the 16th century grammars of Italy: The case of cotesto

Roman Sosnowski | pp. 253–272

Deixis and reference in the treatment of personal pronouns and demonstratives in Francesco Soave: Gramatica ragionata della lingua italiana, 1771

Viggo Bank Jensen | pp. 273–284

Name index | pp. 285–286

Subject index | pp. 287–290

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Bouissac, Paul

2019. Introduction. In The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 304], ► pp. 1 ff.

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