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The NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity : typology, history, syntax and semantics /

"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 lit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bar-Asher Siegal, Elitzur A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Colección:Typological studies in language ; v. 127.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 291 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027261687
9027261687
ISSN:0167-7373 ;