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Demonstratives in Interaction : Emergence of a Definite Article in Finnish.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1997.
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| Colección: | Studies in discourse and grammar ;
7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- DEMONSTRATIVES IN INTERACTION THE EMERGENCE OF A DEFINITE ARTICLE IN FINNISH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 Objectives; 1.2. Orientation; 1.3. Organization; 1.4. Data; 1.4.1. The conversational corpus; 1.4.2. The narrative corpus; 1.4.2.1. Late 1800s narratives; 1.4.2.2. 1930s and 40s narratives; 1.4.2.3. Modern narratives; 1.4.3. The issue of comparability between groups of data; 1.5. Method of analysis; 1.5.1. Transcription; 1.5.2. Coding; 1.5.2.1. Noun phrase type; 1.5.2.2. Referent and number of mention.
- 1.5.2.3. Semantic Class1.5.2.4. Identifiability and identiflability path; 1.5.2.5. Activation cost; 1.5.2.6. Discourse referentiality; 1.5.2.7. Case and grammatical role; 1.5.2.8. Word order; 1.6. Summary; Chapter 2. Deixis and identifiability; 2.1. Deixis and demonstratives; 2.2. Identifiability; Chapter 3. The Finnish demonstratives; 3.1. The demonstratives and their forms; 3.2. Previous studies of the Finnish demonstratives; 3.3. The Finnish demonstratives in use: A non-concrete view; 3.3.1. The use of demonstratives for referents present in the situation; 3.3.1.1. Tämä; 3.3.1.2. Tuo.
- 3.3.1.3 Se3.3.2. Use of demonstratives for referents not present in the speech situation; 3.3.2.1. The discourse deictic use of demonstratives; 3.3.2.2. The use of demonstratives in introduction and tracking of referents; 3.4. The locative-adverbial forms of the demonstratives; 3.5. Summary; Chapter 4. The grammaticization of se as a marker of identifiability; 4.1. Se-marking in the narratives from the 1800s; 4.1.1. Se-marking and prominence; 4.1.2. Se-marking and activation cost; 4.1.2.1. Se-marking of noun phrases with accessible referents.
- 4.1.2.2. Se-marking of noun phrases with given referents4.1.3. Grammatical role and se-marking; 4.1.4. Identifiability, discourse referentiality and se-marking; 4.1.5. Se-marking and semantic class; 4.1.6. Summary; 4.2. Se-marking in the narratives from the 1930s; 4.2.1. The frequency of se-marking; 4.2.2. Se-marking and activation cost; 4.2.3 Discourse prominence and se-marking; 4.2.4. Identifiability path and se-marking; 4.2.5. Grammatical function and se-marking; 4.2.6. Summary; 4.3. Se-marking in the modern data; 4.3.1. The frequency of se-marking; 4.3.2. Se-marking and prominence.
- 4.3.3. Se-marking and activation cost in the modern data4.3.4. Se-marking and grammatical role; 4.3.6. What kinds of noun phrases are not se-marked in the modern data?; 4.4. Is se an article yet?; 4.5. About the role of external influence; 4.6. Conclusions; Notes; Notes to Chapter 1; Notes to Chapter 2; Notes to Chapter 3; Notes to Chapter 4; Appendix; Transcription symbols; Abbreviations; References; Author Index; Subject Index.