The Norwegian Nominal System : a Neo-Saussurean Perspective.
This study presents a unified, economic account of the intricate relationship between form, meaning and interpretation in the Norwegian nominal system - without reference to polysemy. It covers all kinds of nominal signs, i.e. nouns, adjectives, pronouns and determiners, as well as the conventionali...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter,
2016.
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Colección: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs TiLSM.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements ; Table of contents ; Abbreviations ; List of tables, figures and grammatical definitions ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Theoretical, empirical and methodological foundations ; 2.1 Theory: signifié/signifiant ; 2.1.1 Arbitrariness and conventions.
- 2.1.2 Saussure and syntax: linearity, limitations of arbitrariness 2.1.3 Neo-Saussurean syntax ; 2.1.4 Summary and implications ; 2.2 The object of study: synchrony/diachrony and langue/parole ; 2.2.1 Synchrony/diachrony ; 2.2.2 Delimiting the object of study in time and space.
- 2.2.3 Langage, langue, parole 2.2.4 Further delimiting the object of study
- the Norwegian Nominal System ; 2.3 Methodology ; 2.3.1 Syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic relations, value and signification ; 2.3.2 The contrastive view ; 2.3.3 The concrete data.
- 2.4 Neo-Saussurean grammar vs. other current theories 2.4.1 Neo-Saussurean grammar and (European) structuralism ; 2.4.2 Neo-Saussurean vs. generative gramar ; 2.4.3 Neo-Saussurean vs. cognitive linguistics and construction grammar(s) ; 2.4.4 Summary ; 2.5 Closing the chapter.
- 3 Norwegian nouns and adjectives 3.1 Norwegian nouns ; 3.2 The Norwegian definite forms ; 3.2.1 Distribution and interpretation of the definite forms
- definiteness as identifiability ; 3.2.2 Implicit or "missing" possessives ; 3.3 The Norwegian Indefinite Plural.