03119cam a2200349 i 4500 21305218 20201204125859.0 191121s2020 ne a b 001 0 eng 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 1 shelf copy policy default LBSOR 2019-11-21 xk33 2019-11-25 to Dewey xm07 2019-11-25 xn11 2020-09-23 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. xk25 2020-11-03 to CALM 2019049894 9789027204783 (hardcover ; alk. paper) 9789027261687 (pdf) LBSOR/DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc P299.R38 B37 2020 415 23 Bar-Asher Siegal, Elitzur A., author. The NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity : typology, history, syntax and semantics / Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] xv, 291 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; volume 127 Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and index. 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. "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 literature, namely that so-called reciprocal constructions encode symmetric relations. Instead, they are analyzed as constructions encoding unspecified relations. In effect, it provides a new proposal for the truth-conditional semantics of these constructions. More broadly, this book introduces new ways of bringing together historical linguistics and formal semantics, demonstrating how, on the one hand, the inclusion of historical data concerning the sources of reciprocal constructions enriches their synchronic analysis; and how, on the other hand, an analysis of the syntax and the semantics of these constructions serves as a key for understanding their historical origins"-- Provided by publisher. Grammar, Comparative and general Reciprocals. Online version: Bar-Asher Siegal, Elitzur A. NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] 9789027261687 (DLC) 2019049895 LBSORCIP 2019-11-21