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9789027261687
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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
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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