Coordination

2021 ◽  
pp. 583-714
Author(s):  
Harm Pinkster
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Chapter 19 deals with coordination, both syndetic (with an overt coordinator) and asyndetic. Three semantic types are distinguished: conjunctive, disjunctive, and adversative coordination. The conjoins that are coordinated may be clauses and noun, adjective, or adverb phrases. Conjoins can share a coordinator or have multiple coordinators. In addition there is epitactic coordination.

2020 ◽  
pp. 007542422097914
Author(s):  
Karin Aijmer

Well has a long history and is found as an intensifier already in older English. It is argued that diachronically well has developed from its etymological meaning (‘in a good way’) on a cline of adverbialization to an intensifier and to a discourse marker. Well is replaced by other intensifiers in the fourteenth century but emerges in new uses in Present-Day English. The changes in frequency and use of the new intensifier are explored on the basis of a twenty-year time gap between the old British National Corpus (1994) and the new Spoken British National Corpus (2014). The results show that well increases in frequency over time and that it spreads to new semantic types of adjectives and participles, and is found above all in predicative structures with a copula. The emergence of a new well and its increase in frequency are also related to social factors such as the age, gender, and social class of the speakers, and the informal character of the conversation.


Author(s):  
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin ◽  
Ion Giurgea

This book is a study of the syntax and semantics of proportional Most and other majority quantifiers across languages. Based on data drawn from around forty languages, this book reveals the existence of two semantic types of Most: a distributive type, which compares cardinalities of sets of atoms, and a “cumulative” type, which involves measuring plural and mass entities with respect to a whole. On the syntactic side, the most important difference is between non-partitive and partitive configurations. Certain majority quantifiers are specialized for partitive constructions, others are also allowed in non-partitives. We also examine complex majority expressions of the type The Largest Part and nominal quantifiers of the type The Majority. This large scale crosslinguistic investigation qualifies as a piece of typological research that moreover offers several case studies on both well-studied and less investigated languages (English, German, Icelandic, Romanian, Italian, Hungarian, Basque, Latin, Hindi, Syrian Arabic). The proposed analyses raise new theoretical questions regarding issues such as number marking, partitivity, kind reference, (in)definiteness marking, which are crucial issues for linguistic theory. Noteworthy is the attention paid to mass and collective quantification, an under-studied area. We argue in favor of a quantificational analysis of Most, against recent analyses that attempt to derive the proportional interpretation from the superlative, but we adopt a bipartition-cum-superlative analysis for The Largest Part.


2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekkehard König

This paper presents a detailed analysis of reflexive nominal compounds like self-assessment in English and their counterparts in nine other languages, whose number and use has strongly increased in these languages over the last several decades. The first component of these compounds is shown to be related to intensifiers like selbst in German and its cognate form self- in English, whose multiple uses also underlie different semantic types of reflexive compounds (self-help vs. self-control), whereas the second component typically derives from transitive verbs. Among the central problems discussed in this paper are the question of the productivity of these compounds and the possibility of deriving their meaning in a compositional fashion. The parameters of variation manifested by the sample of languages under comparison in this pilot study concern inter alia the form of the intensifier (native or borrowed, one or two), the semantic type, and the lexical category of the resultant compound.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Ida Ayu Pristina Pidada ◽  
Mirsa Umiyati ◽  
Ni Wayan Kasni

A number of studies on verbs as one of the linguistic grammatical categories, serving to desccribe events, have been to explore in depth their more distinct types according to their semantic primitives under the natural semantic metalanguage theory approach. This research aims is to features the semantic types and specific roles of the verb ‘to carry’ in Balinese from the natural semantic metalanguage theory perspective. This study is a qualitative study. The semantic types of the verb in question was first classified in order to ease the identification of their specific semantic roles. The results of research show type of semantic roles were restricted to agent for the arguments serving as an actor of the activity described with the each of semantic type of the verb ‘to carry’ and patient for those serving as target of the said activity. This research discloses a 21 type of Balinese verbs which semantically have an intimate relation to the verb ‘to carry’; they are nèngtèng, ningting, nyangkol, nyangkil, nyuun, negen, ngandong, nenggolong, nyelet, nyelepit, ngabin, nampa, ngundit, nangal, nandan, nyekel, nikul, ngenyang, mundut, nyunggi, dan ngayot.


2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Vouillon ◽  
Paul-André Melliès
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Author(s):  
О.А. Селеменева

Синтаксический уровень организации текстов печатной рекламы, функционирование в них определенных структурно-семантических типов предложений все еще является малоизученной областью рекламной коммуникации. Поэтому актуальность исследования бисубстантивных предложений, активизирующих свое присутствие в современных коммерческих рекламных текстах в результате стремления языка рекламы к субстантивности, экономии речевых средств, использования несложных линейных структур, не вызывает сомнений. Источниками исследования послужили российские и международные журналы 2017 - 2020 гг.: «Здоровье», «Золотой квадрат», «Идеи вашего дома», «Красота и Здоровье», «Cosmopolitan», «ELLE», «Tatler», «InStyle», «Yoga Journal» и др. В статье описываются разные типы бисубстантивных предложений: со значением генерализующей идентификации, со значением толкования, с таксономическим значением, с собственно характеризующим и локальным значениями. Автор приходит к выводу, что бисубстантивные предложения разной семантики выполняют ряд специфических функций в рекламных текстах: аттрактивную (привлечение внимания адресата к рекламируемому продукту), информативную (фиксация основных свойств продукта), аргументационно-гарантийную (приведение аргументов в пользу покупки), эмоционально-экспрессивную (создание благоприятного эмоционального фона), стимулирующую (стимулирование желания приобрести продукт), суггестивную (осуществление неаргументированного воздействия на реципиента, формирование психологических эффектов). At present the by-way of advertising communication is the syntactic level of organization of advertising texts, the functioning of certain structural-semantic types of sentences. Therefore, there is no doubt in the relevance of the research of bisubstantive sentences activating their presence in the modern commercial advertising texts as a result of the desire of the advertising language to substantiality, saving speech resources, and using simple line structures. The sources of the study were the international and Russian magazines of various directions published 2017 - 2020: “Health”, “Golden Square”, “Ideas for Your Home”, “Beauty and Health, “Cosmopolitan”, “ELLE”, “Tatler”, “InStyle”, “Yoga Journal” and others. The article describes different types of bisubstantive sentences with different meaning: with the meaning of generalizing identification, with the meaning of interpretation, with the taxonomic meaning, with the characteristic, with the local meaning. The author comes to the conclusion that bisubstantive sentences of different semantics perform several specific functions in the advertising texts: attractive (attracting the addressee’s attention of to the advertised product), informative (fixing the main properties of the product), argumentative and guarantee (mustering arguments for the purchase), emotionally-expressive (creating a favorable emotional background), stimulating (stimulating the desire to purchase a product), suggestive (realizing the unreasonable impact on the recipient, making the psychological effects).


2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
Gertrud Schneider-Blum ◽  
Birgit Hellwig

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the interplay between the morphosyntactic class of adjectives, the semantics of property concepts, and the function of noun modification in Tabaq, a Kordofan Nubian language (Nilo-Saharan phylum) spoken in the north-west of the Nuba Mountains in Sudan. Tabaq has a small class of adjectives containing few semantic types, and playing only a limited role with respect to the core function of adjectives: the modification of nouns. By contrast, a large number of descriptive modifiers is derived from two other word classes, verbs and nouns, and this paper describes the different ways of coding property concepts in Tabaq.


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