Coordination Relations In The Languages Of Europe And Beyond
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Coordination Relations in the Languages of Europe and Beyond
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.
Chinese Lexical Semantics
The two-volume set LNAI 15552 and 15553 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 25th Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics, CLSW 2024, held in Xiamen, China, during May 31–June 2, 2024. The 64 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 226 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I : Lexical Semantics Part II : Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing; Corpus Linguistics and Language Resources; and General Linguistics.
The Bloomsbury Companion to Syntax
The Bloomsbury Companion to Syntax is the definitive guide to a key area of linguistic study.