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The evolution of complex spatial expressions within the Romance family : a corpus-based study of French and Italian /
In 'The Evolution of Complex Spatial Expressions within the Romance Family', Thomas Hoelbeek offers a corpus-based historical study of a group of expressions in French and Italian. Applying a functional approach, he tackles adpositions containing the French noun 'travers' or the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in historical linguistics ;
v. 7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In 'The Evolution of Complex Spatial Expressions within the Romance Family', Thomas Hoelbeek offers a corpus-based historical study of a group of expressions in French and Italian. Applying a functional approach, he tackles adpositions containing the French noun 'travers' or the Italian noun 'traverso', previously never analysed from a diachronic perspective. This study enriches our knowledge of the expressions analysed and their functioning in the past, but also in present-day French and Italian, providing diachronic observations regarding functional notions put to the test. Thomas Hoelbeek's work also contributes to a better understanding of the grammaticalisation mechanisms of complex constructions, and shows that typologically related languages may evolve differently in their ways of representing space. |
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| Notas: | "This book is a revised version of my Ph. D. dissertation, which I defended at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on April 28, 2014." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004314580 900431458X |