ヨーロッパその他の言語における等置関係 Coordination Relations in the Languages of Europe and Beyond : Diss. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] 42) （2008. XVIII, 354 S. 17 b/w ill., 54 b/w tbl.）

Mauri, Caterina

DE GRUYTER（2008発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 330 p.
• 商品コード 9783110204391

基本説明

This book examines the coding of the three coordination relations of combination, contrast and alternative on the basis of a 74 language sample.

Full Description

This book examines the coding of the three coordination relations of combination, contrast and alternative between states of affairs on the basis of a 74 language sample, with special focus on the languages spoken in Europe. It constitutes the first systematic inquiry so far conducted on the cross-linguistic coding of coordination, as defined in cognitive and pragmatic terms. This research shows that the 'and-but-or' coding system which is typical of Central-Western Europe appears to be extremely rare outside Europe, where a great variation in the coding of coordination is attested. This cross-linguistic variation, however, is not random, but is crucially constrained by the interaction of economic principles with the semantic properties of the individual relations expressed. A fine-grained functional systematization of coordination is proposed and described by means of implicational patterns and semantic maps. This work brings together a broad cross-linguistic perspective and a detailed semantic analysis, largely based on new and comparable data collected by means of questionnaires, all accessible in the appendix of the book. It represents the first systematic attempt towards a unified typology of coordination relations.