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The Hittite Demonstratives : Studies in Deixis, Topics and Focus.
In order to mitigate the lack of context inherent to the study of dead languages, the author has developed a descriptive model that combines (a) cognitive approaches to reference, (b) a theory of information structure, and (c) typological studies on demonstratives. With the help of this model the au...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2015.
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| Edición: | 1. |
| Colección: | Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In order to mitigate the lack of context inherent to the study of dead languages, the author has developed a descriptive model that combines (a) cognitive approaches to reference, (b) a theory of information structure, and (c) typological studies on demonstratives. With the help of this model the author not only provides for the first time a thorough description of the long-known demonstratives ka- "this" and apa- "that", but also identifies a third demonstrative, asi "that, yonder". This identification has led to a reappraisal of the distal semantics of apa-: apa- does not mark remote objects at all but points at objects in the vicinity of the addressee. In short, the Hittite demonstratives are not distance- but person-based. As a third person pronoun, apa-̄ also expresses emphasis. A detailed analysis within the framework of information structure shows, for example, that apa-̄ in preverbal position marks a referent as the Contrastive Focus of its clause (in "the dog (not the cat) chased the horse", dog is in Contrastive Focus). Non-contrastive focal apa-̄, on the other hand, always occurs in initial position. The addition of information structure to the grammatical description of Hittite thus provides a better understanding of the meaning effects of word order variation in this SOV language. Reihe Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten - Band 55. |
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| Notas: | 3.1.6 Paradigm cleansing and update. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (637 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783447193344 3447193344 |