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GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL --- DEMONSTRATIVES

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Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind die endophorischen (d.h. nicht-situativen) Verwendungen demonstrativischer Ausdrücke im heutigen Französischen und Italienischen. Ausgangspunkt der sprachvergleichenden Analyse ist die morphologisch definierte Klasse der Demonstrativa in beiden Sprachen. In Abgrenzung zu den Funktionen von definitem Artikel und Personalpronomen werden die einzelnen Verwendungstypen ermittelt und deixistheoretisch eingeordnet. Ausgangspunkt ist die Annahme, dass auch die nicht-situativen, d.h. vor allem anaphorische und kataphorische, Verwendungen der Demonstrativa grundsätzlich deiktischen Charakter haben. Es wird gezeigt, dass in den endophorischen Verwendungen in beiden Sprachen eine eigenständige Realisierung der Deixis vorliegt, die nur marginal über die Nähe/Distanz-Relation im Text verläuft. Große Unterschiede im Form-Funktionsverhältnis zeigen sich dabei v.a. bei den morphosyntaktisch deutlich divergierenden adnominalen Paradigmen beider Sprachen. Der empirischen Untersuchung liegt ein umfangreiches Korpus überwiegend schriftsprachlicher Texte zugrunde.

French language --- Italian language --- Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Demonstratives. --- Demonstratives --- Romance languages --- Langue d'oïl --- French language - Demonstratives --- Italian language - Demonstratives

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Atypical demonstratives have not received adequate attention in the literature so far, or have even been completely neglected. By providing fresh insights and discussing new facets, this volume contributes to the better understanding of this group of words, starting from specific empirical phenomena, and advances our knowledge of the various properties of demonstratives, their syntactic multi-functionality, semantic feature specifications and pragmatic functions. In addition, some of the papers discuss different grammaticalization processes involving demonstratives, in particular how and from which lexical and morphosyntactic categories they originate cross-linguistically, and which semantic or pragmatic mechanisms play which role in their emergence. As such, the different contributions guide the readers on an adventurous journey into the realm of different exotic species of demonstratives, whose peculiar properties offer new exiting insights into the complex nature of demonstrative expressions themselves.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Demonstratives. --- Demonstratives (Grammar) --- Indexicals (Semantics) --- Demonstratives --- Deixis --- Determiners --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- E-books --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Deixis. --- Determiners.

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This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes and explains the developing use of se based on a database consisting of spoken narratives from three different periods spanning the last one hundred years.

Finnish language --- Baltic-Finnic languages --- Demonstratives. --- Article --- History. --- Pronoun. --- Grammar

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Past research on the Sabellian languages has been devoted mainly to the phonetic and morphological features of these languages as elements for the reconstruction of the prehistoric stages of Latin. The present book aims at analysing the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic features of a subset of grammatical terms, the demonstratives. It contains a thorough description of their synchronic behaviour, which permits both a comparison to the Latin data with new hypotheses on the epigraphic genres in Republican Italy and a reconstruction of the Italic origins of these terms based on typological principles. Neither the grammar of Sabellian nor the pragmatic scope of the Sabellian inscriptions should be considered a priori identical to their Latin comparanda.

Indo-European languages --- Grammar --- Umbria --- Sabellian languages --- Langues sabelliques --- Demonstratives --- Démonstratifs --- Sabellian language --- Démonstratifs --- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Latin. --- Sabellic languages --- Extinct languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Demonstratives. --- Sabellian language - Demonstratives