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La Cortesia en la Peninsula Iberica : Dialectologia del Sprachbund suroccidental
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ISBN: 3034333897 3034333927 3034333900 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin : Peter Lang,

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"En este libro se pretende hacer un doble estudio. Por un lado, sincrónico, en el que se presente la situación actual de la nivelación de 'ustedes' a costa de 'vosotros' en Andalucía occidental, así como de la generalización de vocês como nuevo pronombre de 2pl en Portugal. Por otro lado, diacrónico, en el que se comparen los resultados actuales con los manejados en obras que tratan de estos fenómenos y con los datos de atlas lingüísticos de mediados del siglo XX"--


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Optimality theoretic syntax, semantics, and pragmatics : from uni- to bidirectional optimization
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ISBN: 9780198808954 019880895X Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Evidence for evidentiality
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ISBN: 9789027200952 9789027263919 9027200955 9027263914 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia

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"Statements are always under the threat of the potential counter-question How do you know? To pre-empt this question, language users often indicate what kind of access they had to the communicated content: Their own perception, inference from other information, 'hearsay', etc. Such expressions, grammatical or lexical, have been studied in recent years under the cover term of evidentiality research. The present volume contributes 11 new studies to this flourishing field, all exploring evidential phenomena in a range of languages (Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Khalkha Mongolian, Spanish, Tibetan, Yurakaré), using a variety of methodologies. Evidential meaning is discussed in relation to other semantic dimensions, such as epistemic modality, semantic roles, commitment, quotative meaning, and tense. The volume is of interest to scholars and students who are interested in up-to-date methods and frameworks for studying evidential meaning and the various ways it is expressed in the languages of the world"


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The unmasking of English dictionaries
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ISBN: 1108382010 1108383939 1108377505 1108421636 1108433340 9781108421638 9781108433341 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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When we look up a word in a dictionary, we want to know not just its meaning but also its function and the circumstances under which it should be used in preference to words of similar meaning. Standard dictionaries do not address such matters, treating each word in isolation. R. M. W. Dixon puts forward a new approach to lexicography that involves grouping words into 'semantic sets', to describe what can and cannot be said, and providing explanations for this. He provides a critical survey of the evolution of English lexicography from the earliest times, showing how Samuel Johnson's classic treatment has been amended in only minor ways. Written in an easy and accessible style, the book focuses on the rampant plagiarism between lexicographers, on ways of comparing meanings of words, and on the need to link lexicon with grammar. Dixon tells an engrossing story that puts forward a vision for the future.


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Changing structures : studies in constructions and complementation
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,

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Pronouns in Embedded Contexts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
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ISBN: 9783319567044 3319567047 3319567063 Year: 2018 Volume: 99 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research. Much of the recent research on pronouns has shown that embedded environments, such as clausal complements of attitude predicates, provide a window into the nature of pronouns. Pronouns in such environments not only exhibit familiar distinctions such as that between bound and referential pronouns; if they refer to the attitude holder, they also participate in a broader range of phenomena, e.g., distinguishing between a de se reading (involving a conscious self-directed belief) and a de re reading (involving an accidental belief about oneself). Topics covered in the book include: the semantics of attitude reports that contain pronominal elements, the semantics of pronominal features and their connection to indexicality, new insights in the connection of pronominal typology and logophoricity or anti-logophoricity, and finally, the localization of embedded pronouns within a bigger picture involving the nature of perspective and the analysis of quasi-pronominal phenomena such as sequence of tense.


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Changing structures : studies in constructions and complementation
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ISBN: 9789027200549 9789027264220 9027264228 9027200548 Year: 2018 Volume: 195 Publisher: Amsterdam: John Benjamins,

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This book is a collection of eleven research articles which altogether serve as a contribution to the study of verb complementation and other constructions, an area of investigation which bridges observations on the spectrum of lexico-grammar, syntax, and semantics. In terms of methodological approaches and the types of linguistic patterns examined, the chapters cast light on the subject from a variety of perspectives, and the volume is structured in a way that groups the various perspectives under three main themes according to their main focus and/or methodological approaches, namely: the semantic and functional descriptions of constructions; the investigation into the distribution of complementation patterns; and the study of innovative patterns in ESL contexts and languages other than English. All chapters in this volume employ data from large electronic corpora where possible – the BNC, COCA, COHA, GloWbE, NOW, and newly compiled corpora representing regional varieties of English.

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