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This volume proposes a new way to address the classical question concerning the relation between language, cognition, and culture from the perspective of two basic systems: deixis and the pronominal system. It investigates the linguistic structuring of basic concepts of person, place and time in Romance languages, disclosing structural differences that may be related to mental parameters and other extra-linguistic circumstances and thus possibly linked to a light revision of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. The methodological and theoretical focus is based on the discursive and pragmatic functional approach to deixis. The articles concern linguistic variation and language change, and most of the studies adopt cross linguistic perspectives, primarily among Romance languages, but also with a classical perspective from Ancient Greek discussing the existence of universal categorical patterns.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Romance languages --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Pronoun --- Deixis --- Pronoun. --- Deixis. --- Grammar. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Romance languages - Pronoun --- Romance languages - Deixis --- Romance languages - Grammar

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This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.

Linguistic change. --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- feest- en gedenkbundels. --- taalkunde. --- Andersen, Henning, --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammaticalization. --- Grammaticalization --- Semantics --- Syntax --- Linguistic change --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative --- E-books --- Andersen, Henning