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Spanish language --- Grammar --- Nominals --- Word formation --- Grammar, Generative --- -Spanish language --- -Castilian language --- Romance languages --- Grammar, Generative. --- Nominals. --- Word formation. --- -Nominals --- Castilian language --- Spanish language - Nominals --- Spanish language - Word formation --- Spanish language - Grammar, Generative
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Quantification is central to human experience (cf. Aristotle's Organon): the most basic aspects of human life and reasoning involve quantity assessment. This study sheds lights on a highly frequent way to express quantification in Spanish, viz. the binominal quantifier (e.g. un aluviónN1 de llamadasN2 'a flood of calls') which assesses the quantity of N2 in terms of N1. This volume offers a corpus-based, cognitive-functional analysis of binominal quantifiers (BQ) in Spanish. The first part is dedicated to the development of BQs and starts from the assumption that BQs are cross-linguistically involved in grammaticalization. This monograph frames the history of BQs in Spanish in terms of constructional levels of change and highlights the complex interplay between analogical thinking and conceptual persistence. The second part motivates both the ample variation in the paradigm of quantifying nouns and their combinatorial pattern by the very same mechanism of conceptually-driven analogy. The study thus yields an innovative functional model of BQs in Spanish, in synchrony and in diachrony, with major implications for reference grammars and theory building.
Spanish language --- Castilian language --- Romance languages --- Nominals. --- Qualifiers. --- Topic and comment. --- Spanish language - Nominals --- Spanish language - Qualifiers --- Spanish language - Topic and comment --- Cognitive Semantics. --- Cognitive-functional Linguistics. --- Conceptualization in Quantification. --- Grammaticalization (of Constructions).
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Examining its subject from a generative perspective, this highly detailed text deals with the syntax of nominal expressions. It focuses on empirical data taken from the Spanish language, though the author goes further to draw conclusions of wider theoretical interest from material culled from other languages too. The book considers crucial phenomena in the nominal domain, such as extraction out of nominal phrases and ellipsis in these phrases, as well as their modification. In doing so it provides the reader with a unified explanation of a number of phenomena that have not previously been analyzed under a single basic account. In particular, Ticio explores how economy notions interact with a number of functional categories, with the length and type of movements allowed, and with the existence of three internal domains within nominal expressions. She uses these observations to inform her analysis of the structure of arguments and adjuncts in nominal expressions, and of the potential these elements have for extraction. To test the empirical adequacy of her analysis, she employs phenomena such as the properties of attributive adjectives, partial cliticization and nominal elision in Spanish nominal phrases. Aimed at specialized linguists as well as those with a particular interest in Spanish and Romance languages, the research laid out in this book contributes to the general discussion on linguistic theory by providing additional material relevant to key ongoing debates in the theory of grammar, such as the need to have a distinction between adjuncts and specifiers, and the lack of head movement (N movement).
Spanish language -- Determiners. --- Spanish language -- Nominals. --- Spanish language -- Syntax. --- Spanish language --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Romance Languages --- Grammar, Comparative --- English --- Syntax --- Determiners --- Nominals --- Syntax. --- Determiners. --- Nominals. --- Castilian language --- Linguistics. --- Grammar. --- Romance languages. --- Theoretical Linguistics. --- Romance Languages. --- Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Romance languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
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