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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goedegebuure, Petra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015.
Edición:1.
Colección:Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; List of tables; Foreword; Abbreviations; Bibliographical; Technical abbreviations and symbols; Body; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Short overview; 1.3 autline of the book; 1.4 Palaeography and text dating; 1.5 The corpus; 1.5.1 ald Hittite in old Script; 1.5.2 Middle Hittite in middle Script; 1.5.2.1 Zidantall; 1.5.2.2 Tutḫalii̯a I/II and Nikalmati; 1.5.2.3 Arnuu̯anda I and Ašmunikal; 1.5.2.4 Tutḫalii̯a III; 1.5.2.5 Šuppiluliuma I; 1.5.2.6 Middle Hittite unassigned; 1.5.3 New Hittite; 1.5.3.1 Muršili I I; 1.5.3.2 Muu̯atalli I I.
  • 1.5.3.3 Urḫi-Teššub (Muršili III)1.5.3.4 Ḫattušili I I I and Puduḫeba; 1.5.4 Late New Hittite; 1.5.4.1 Tutḫalii̯a IV; 1.5.4.2 Šuppiluliuma I I; 1.6 Paradigms; 1.6.1 ald Hittite, old Script; 1.6.2 Middle Hittite, middle Script; 1.6.3 New Hittite; 1.6.4 Late New Hittite ; 2 Reference, deixis and discourse; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Deixis, cognition and information structure; 2.2.1 Introduction; 2.2.2 The geographical approach; 2.2.3 The cognitive approach; 2.2.3.1 Introduction; 2.2.3.2 Memory and cognitive procedures; 2.2.3.3 Accessibility and cognitive status; 2.2.3.4 Saliency and discourse nodes.
  • 2.2.4 Information structure2.2.4.1 Introduction; 2.2.4.2 The notions topic and focus; 2.2.4.2.1 Predicate focus; 2.2.4.2.2 Argument focus; 2.2.4.2.3 Sentence focus; 2.2.5 Summary; 2.3 Demonstratives; 2.3.1 Introduction; 2.3.2 Deictic use of demonstratives; 2.3.2.1 Introduction to deixis; 2.3.2.2 Types of deixis; 2.3.2.3 Semantic features of demonstratives; 2.3.2.4 Summary and conclusions; 2.3.3 Memory retrieving use of demonstratives; 2.3.3.1 Introduction; 2.3.3.2 Recognitional reference: 'old-that'; 2.3.3.3 Specific indefinite reference: 'new-this'; 2.3.3.4 Summary and conclusions.
  • 2.3.4 Discourse deictic use of demonstratives2.3.5 Anaphoric use of demonstratives; 2.3.5.1 Introduction; 2.3.5.2 Demonstratives with non-salient referents; 2.3.5.3 Demonstratives with salient referents; 2.3.5.3.1 Immediate anaphora after first mention; 2.3.5.3.2 Demarcating discourse units; 2.3.5.4 Summary; 2.3.6 Subjective use of demonstratives: speaker stance; 2.3.7 Summary; 2.4 Third person pronouns; 2.4.1 Introduction ; 2.4.2 Unaccented pronouns, clitics and zero as established topics; 2.4.3 Accented pronouns; 2.4.3.1 Accented pronouns and saliency.
  • 2.4.3.2 The accented pronoun as unestablished topic expression2.4.3.3 The accented pronoun as contrastive topic expression; 2.4.3.4 The accented pronoun as focus expression; 2.4.4 Third person pronouns and discourse units; 2.4.5 Summary; 2.5 Summary and conclusions; 3 The distal demonstratives aši+ and anna/i-; 3.1 Status quaestionis; 3.1.1 Introduction; 3.1.2 Friedrich's different lexemes with similar function; 3.1.3 Laroche's one paradigm, one function; 3.1.4 HW2's criticism of Laroche, and my criticism of HW2; 3.1.5 A note on the classification of aši+ as demonstrative.