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Subjectification : various paths to subjectivity /
Subjectification is a widespread phenomenon and has emerged as a most pervasive tendency in diachronic semantic change (Traugott) and in synchronic semantic extension (Langacker). Its importance is increasingly valued despite the fact that it is an area that has been treated differently by different...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Cognitive linguistics research ;
31. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Section I: Large theoretical issues
- Subjectification, grammaticization, and conceptual archetypes
- Logic, subjectivity, and the semantics/pragmatics distinction
- Toward a typology of linguistic subjectivity: A cognitive and cross-linguistic approach to grammaticalized deixis
- Section II: Case studies I � Modals and modality
- Subjectification in (expressions of) epistemic modality and the development of the grounding predication
- Langacker�s ‚subjectification� and ‚grounding�: A more gradual view
- Conceptual and constructional considerations on the subjectivity of English and Spanish modalsSection III: Case studies II � Adjectives
- Adjectives and subjectivity
- Grammaticalization and subjectification of the English adjectives of general comparison
- Subjectification in gradable adjectives
- Section IV: Syntax and semantics
- On subjectivity and ‚long distance Wh-movement�
- Subjective construal and factual interpretation in sentential complements
- Zero in syntax, ten in pragmatics: Subjectification as syntactic cancellation
- Author index