Type Noun Constructions in Slavic, Germanic and Romance Languages : : Semantics and Pragmatics on the Move / / ed. by Lieselotte Brems, Kristin Davidse, Inga Hennecke, Alena Kolyaseva, Anna Kisiel, Wiltrud Mihatsch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Aijmer, Karin,; Aldina Marques, Maria,; Beeching, Kate,; Benigni, Valentina,; Benninger, Céline,; Brems, Lieselotte,; Chauveau-Thoumelin, Pierre,; Davidse, Kristin,; Gast, Volker,; Gerhard-Krait, Francine,; Gridina, Jelena,; Janebová, Markéta,; Keizer, Evelien,; Kisiel, Anna,; Kolyaseva, Alena,; Lammert, Marie,; Malena Kornfeld, Laura,; Martinková, Michaela,; Mihatsch, Wiltrud,; Turla, Daina,; Umbach, Carla,; Van linden, An,; Vassiliadou, Hélène,; Vladimirska, Elena,; Voghera, Miriam,
• HerausgeberIn: Brems, Lieselotte,; Davidse, Kristin,; Hennecke, Inga ,; Kisiel, Anna,; Kolyaseva, Alena,; Mihatsch, Wiltrud,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 352
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XI, 730 p.)

This volume is the first dedicated to the comprehensive, in-depth analysis of constructions with nouns like ‘type’ and ‘sort’. It focuses on type noun constructions in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, integrating the different descriptive traditions that had been developed for each language family. As a result, a greater variety of type noun constructions is revealed than in the hitherto more fragmented literature. But attention is also drawn to the cross-linguistic similarity of the new pragmatic meanings, such as ad hoc and approximative categorization, hedging, focus and filler uses, and the new grammatical functions in NPs (e.g. phoric uses), clauses (e.g. adverbial uses) and complex sentences (e.g. "atives). The volume offers survey chapters of type noun constructions in each language family as well as contributions focusing on specific aspects in one or two languages, such as their grammar, semantics and pragmatics, diachronic development, discursive and sociolinguistic variety. These complementary methodologies elucidate the unique cross-linguistic field of type noun constructions both descriptively and theoretically. Hence, this volume can also serve as a model for similar surveys in other functional domains.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 General introduction: Taxonomic nouns and their derived functions in Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages -- Part 1: Type noun constructions in Germanic languages -- 2 Type noun-constructions in English and Dutch -- 3 English type noun-constructions with lexical functions: A new functionalstructural typology -- 4 Type nouns in some varieties of English -- 5 The function and use of NP-external sort/ kind of: The case of sort/kind of DEF NP -- 6 Ways of classification: German Art and Typ -- Part 2: Type noun constructions in Romance languages -- 7 A panoramic overview of the extended uses of taxonomic nouns in Romance languages -- 8 Classification, qualification, typification: Categorizing with genre de and espèce de ‘kind of’ in French -- 9 The network of specie, genere, sorta, tipo constructions: From lexical features to discursive functions -- 10 Pragmatic functions and contexts of use of TIPO in European Portuguese -- 11 Taxonomic nouns and markers of mitigation in Río de la Plata Spanish -- Part 3: Type noun constructions in Slavic languages -- 12 Taxonomic nouns in Slavic: An overview -- 13 Towards a comprehensive typology of type noun constructions in Slavic languages, with a special focus on Polish and Russian -- 14 Polish w stylu and the rise of hedges -- 15 Czech type nouns: Evidence from corpora -- Part 4: Comparative analyses -- 16 The complementizer function of typenouns in ad hoc concept construction: Evidence from Italian and Russian -- 17 Clear vs. approximate categorization in French and Latvian -- 18 Sociopragmatic variation, sort of and genre in English and French -- Language index -- Subject index