Patrícia Amaral - Böcker
Visar alla böcker från författaren Patrícia Amaral. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
2 produkter
2 produkter
Del 46 - Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
Noun-Based Constructions in the History of Portuguese and Spanish
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 236 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This book explores syntactic and semantic change in three types of construction in Spanish and Portuguese: (i) complex determiner phrases with clausal adjunction (el hecho de, o facto de), (ii) complex prepositions/complementizers and complex connectives (sin embargo de/sem embargo de, so(b) pena de), and (iii) complex predicates containing light verbs (dar consejo/conselho de). While these constructions are syntactically different, they are all clause-taking complex expressions containing a noun followed by the functional preposition de ('of'). This book is the first work to use a systematic comparative corpus study to explore these expressions together; this approach allows individual changes to be distinguished from general changes, as well as emphasizing the chronological clustering of changes that involve complex constructions in both languages. By studying mechanisms of language change and their outcomes in two sister languages, Patrícia Amaral and Manuel Delicado Cantero address questions such as: How do complex constructions evolve? How does the meaning of the noun change when considered in isolation and when compared to the meaning of the whole construction? And how do syntactic categories change over time? This study of two closely-related languages reveals distinct developments occurring in parallel, and provides a crucial test case for theories of language change.
1 942 kr
Kommande
This collected volume combines firmly-grounded theoretical perspectives with historical empirical data from different West Iberian languages (Portuguese, Galician, Asturleonese and Spanish) to deepen our understanding of linguistic divergence in typologically related languages. It is divided into four sections: nominal, verbal and clausal domains, negation and polarity. While varied in their theoretical approach, contributions all serve to examine different aspects of the overarching issue of divergence and how current theoretical frameworks help us understand what factors can account for the actuation changes in West Iberian languages. The book closes with a reflection on various findings about divergence(s), underscoring the importance of incorporating West Iberian languages in revisiting long-standing issues and broadening the empirical evidence available for ongoing research on linguistic theories of language change.