3,161 research outputs found
Lexicalization patterns in color naming: a cross-linguistic perspective Studies in functional and structural linguistics ;, v. 78./ edited by Ida Raffaelli, Daniela Katunar, Barbara Kerovec.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Réka Benczes and Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra -- Katarina Dudová -- Maria Grossmann and Paolo D'Achille -- Carsten Levisen -- Seongha Rhee -- Paulette Roulon-Doko -- Maria Bulakh -- Andrea Drocco and Orsola Risato -- Xavier Bach, Anetta Kopecka and Benjamin Fagard -- Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano -- Ida Raffaelli, Jan Chromý and Anetta Kopecka -- Guillaume Segerer and Martine Vanhove -- Þórhalla Guðmundsdóttir Beck and Matthew Whelpton -- Branka Barčot and Anita Hrnjak -- Daniela Katunar, Barbara Kerovec and Nawar Ghanim Murad -- Arseniy Vydrin. Rethinking the category of "basic color term" : evidence from Hungarian lexicalization patterns / Lexicalization patterns in Slovak color naming / Compound color terms in Italian / "Brightness" in color linguistics : new light from Danish visual semantics / Lexicalization patterns in color naming in Korean / Lexicalization patterns in color naming in Gbaya, a Ubanguian language of CAR / Innovations in Semitic color term systems / Lexicalization patterns in color naming : the case of Modern Hindi / Complex color denomination in French and Occitan / Color terms in Basque : lexicalization and categorization / Lexicalization patterns in color naming in Croatian, Czech, and Polish / Color naming in Africa / Universals and variability of color naming in Icelandic, Icelandic sign language, and North American Icelandic / Symbolic and cultural meaning of colors in phraseology : a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study of Russian and German phraseological units / From object to color and back : seeing the world in color in Croatian, Turkish, and Arabic / Ossetic color terms system /1 online resource (vi, 429 pages
Zagreb Fog and March Bora: Meteorological Expressions in the Background of Local Identities
No full textU ovom će se prilogu istražiti uloga meteoroloških izraza u opojmljivanju i kontekstualizaciji lokalnih identiteta, s posebnim osvrtom na objave u Lovranskom listu. Iz jezikoslovne perspektive, meteorološki izrazi odnose se na leksička i sintaktička sredstva koja služe opisu i kategorizaciji domene meteorološkog vremena te meteoroloških događaja (Eriksen i sur. 2012; Katunar i Simeon 2023), a svoju ulogu imaju i u proučavanju jezičnih podataka iz perspektive pučke meteorologije (usp. Sijerković 1996; Gluhak 2004). Iz perspektive filozofije svakodnevnog jezika (npr. Wittgenstein 1998, 2007, 2009), meteorološke izraze moguće je shvatiti i kao leksičko-sintaktička sredstva u kojima se odražavaju bitna značenjska obilježja za razumijevanje (lokalnog) identiteta određenih zajednica (npr. zagrebačka magla i marčana bura).This study investigates the role of meteorological expressions in conceptualizing and contextualizing local identities with special reference to Lovranski list, a local news publication of the municipality of Lovran, Croatia. From a linguistic perspective, meteorological expressions refer to lexical and syntactic means that serve to describe and categorize the domain of meteorological weather and meteorological events (Eriksen et al. 2012; Katunar and Simeon 2023), and they also play a role in the study of linguistic data from the perspective of folk meteorology (cf. Sijerković 1996; Gluhak 2004). From the perspective of ordinary language philosophy (e.g., Wittgenstein 1998, 2007, 2009), meteorological expressions can also be understood as lexical-syntactic means that contain semantic features relevant for understanding the (local) identity of certain communities (e.g., Zagreb fog and March bora)
Lexicalization patterns in color naming a cross-linguistic perspective
No full textRethinking the category of "basic color term" : evidence from Hungarian lexicalization patterns / Réka Benczes and Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra -- Lexicalization patterns in Slovak color naming / Katarina Dudová -- Compound color terms in Italian / Maria Grossmann and Paolo D'Achille -- "Brightness" in color linguistics : new light from Danish visual semantics / Carsten Levisen -- Lexicalization patterns in color naming in Korean / Seongha Rhee -- Lexicalization patterns in color naming in Gbaya, a Ubanguian language of CAR / Paulette Roulon-Doko -- Innovations in Semitic color term systems / Maria Bulakh -- Lexicalization patterns in color naming : the case of Modern Hindi / Andrea Drocco and Orsola Risato -- Complex color denomination in French and Occitan / Xavier Bach, Anetta Kopecka and Benjamin Fagard -- Color terms in Basque : lexicalization and categorization / Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano -- Lexicalization patterns in color naming in Croatian, Czech, and Polish / Ida Raffaelli, Jan Chromý and Anetta Kopecka -- Color naming in Africa / Guillaume Segerer and Martine Vanhove -- Universals and variability of color naming in Icelandic, Icelandic sign language, and North American Icelandic / Þórhalla Guðmundsdóttir Beck and Matthew Whelpton -- Symbolic and cultural meaning of colors in phraseology :a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study of Russian and German phraseological units / Branka Barčot and Anita Hrnjak -- From object to color and back : seeing the world in color in Croatian, Turkish, and Arabic / Daniela Katunar, Barbara Kerovec and Nawar Ghanim Murad -- Ossetic color terms system / Arseniy Vyd
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Imparare le lingue per abbracciare il mondo
No full textL’autrice che si colloca, come Daniela Zorzi, tra i fautori di una linguistica “impegnata”, propone in ricordo della studiosa amica, una riflessione sul ruolo cruciale del multilinguismo e delle lingue- culture, per il successo professionale e il benessere sociale, nella società contemporanea. Il multilinguismo appare come un’urgenza educativa che interpella studiosi e formatori a tutti i livelli al fine di promuovere nei giovani un apprendimento consapevole efficace ed autonomo.Multilingualism constitutes an urgent objective for education, which needs to involve teachers and researchers at all levels if we are to promote effective and autonomous learning in the young. Like Daniela Zorzi, the author considers herself a socially engaged linguist, and in memory of her friend’s work, offers a reflection on the key roles of languages and cultures and of multilingualism for professional success and social welfare today
Reclamações ambientais em Aveiro, Portugal: atores, preocupações, padrão territorial e resoluções
No full textThis paper presents an environmental diagnosis based on public complaints on environmental
issues submitted to the Environmental Department of the Aveiro City Council, Portugal, between
2000 and 2005. It discusses the potential influences of these in local environmental planning
and governance. The paper has been organised into five sections. The first of these introduces
the study. The second section focuses on the conceptual approaches relating to environmental
grassroots movements, the main actors involved in these movements and the role played by
local government. It also contains a brief review of the most recent urban environmental
quality challenges in the European context together with a description of the main features of
the associated political and legal framework in Portugal. The third section describes the case
study and the methodology used. The results of the empirical study are detailed in the fourth
section. The final section critically analyses these results with emphases on the temporal
evolution of the submission of complaints, the actors involved, the local environmental problems
and their associated spatial pattern as well as the responses given by the City Council. This
information may then be used to provide a useful indicator for the perception of environmental
quality as well as a credible instrument for the visualisation and evaluation of local performance
in terms of environmental planning and management.AlBan Programme - n. E05M053040B
Semantic typology: meaning in a cross–linguistic perspective
No full textU ovom se radu nudi sažeti pregled područja istraživanja semantičke tipologije. Navode
se teorijsko–metodološki začetci razvoja semantičke tipologije kao discipline na razme|u
nekoliko tradicija – tipološke, semantičke i antropološke. Cilj je rada objediniti raznorodna istraživanja koja se obavljaju pod krovnim nazivom semantička tipologija te ponuditi
pregled nekih od glavnih tema kojima se ta disciplina bavi.The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of semantic typology as a separate discipline
with an interdisciplinary background. Semantic typology is presented as a novel emerging field in
linguistic typology that combines semantic theory with typological methodology for a systematic
cross–linguistic investigation of meaning. We present and discuss theoretical and methodological
precursors to the development of semantic typology as an independent field at the crossroads
of several traditions – typological, semantic and anthropological. We discuss the influence that
kinship studies, color research, morphosyntactic typology and structuralist semantic traditions
had on the development of semantic typology, as well as the limitations current methodological
approaches based on these studies may encounter. We point out two main ways in which the
term semantic typology is used in extant literature: a) synonymous with lexical typology and
b) synonymous with semantically based typological classification of grammatical categories.
Furthermore, we point out two main approaches to defining lexical typology. One is concerned
with the demarcation of categories in various languages, while the other focuses only on those
lexical features which are grammatically relevant. Finally, we argue for a broad conception of
semantic typology that unifies the two uses of the term. Semantic typology under this view
has the following goals: a) to make generalizations and classifications about “semantic types”,
especially with regard to grammatical categories, b) to seek out potential universal semantic
features and the way that they are coded in the languages of the world, c) to investigate potential
universal semantic relations (e.g. polysemy, synonymy) and the way they operate upon language
structures synchronically and diachronically, d) to investigate regularities in the formation of
lexical and grammatical structures and e) to investigate the lexicon–grammar continuum and
the way meanings are distributed across this continuum, with special attention to regularities
across languages
Weather domain in Croatian: a corpus–based overview of precipitation and non–precipitation expressions
No full textTh is study investigates weather expressions in Croatian, focusing on precipitation and non–precipitation weather phenomena. It highlights the complexity of the weather domain as described by
extant syntactic, semantic and lexical studies showing variation both inter– and intralinguistically,
and as the focus of future investigations. Croatian is examined with respect to proposed typologies
of weather expressions, built around the notion of coding weather occurrences with the predicate or
the argument of the sentence, or both, as well as investigations of lexicalization patterns of weather
verbs with regards to Figure, Path and Manner. Though such classifications are based on cross–linguistic comparisons, their applications for systematizing intralinguistic variability are investigated
on Croatian data. Since descriptions of weather expressions in Croatian have mostly focused on a
subset of the most common weather verbs, verba meteorologica, a corpus–based approach is used to
expand the dataset with different types of syntactic structures and predicates used in describing
weather events, complemented by lexicographic sources. Weather expressions in Croatian are analyzed according to the semantic properties of dynamic and static weather phenomena, contextual
grounding of a weather expression, manner of occurrence and the notions of primary and secondary
weather expressions. Based on the overview of lexicographic and corpus data, this paper sketches an
outline for future systematic study of the weather domain in Croatian.U ovoj se studiji istražuju meteorološki izrazi u hrvatskom, s fokusom na oborine i neoborinske
meteorološke pojave. Domena meteorološkog vremena u hrvatskom smješta se u kontekst postojećih
istraživanja verba meteorologica u hrvatskim jezikoslovnim opisima s jedne strane, te u kontekst tipoloških
istraživanja sintaktičkih struktura kojima se opisuju meteorološki događaji s druge. Kako bi se proširila
opisana jezična građa u vezi s domenom meteorološkog vremena u hrvatskom u radu je odabran korpusno
utemeljen pristup, te se raspravlja o prednostima i izazovima takvog pristupa, i predlaže način na koji se
građa može klasifi cirati za potrebe analize na temelju primarnih, sekundardnih te metaforičkih značenja
meteoroloških izraza. Na temelju korpusnih potvrda i leksikografskih podataka, kategoriji meteoroloških
glagola (kišiti, sniježiti i dr.) pridodani su glagoli koji označuju način zbivanja, npr. rominjati, kao i druge
sintaktičke strukture kojima se može označiti meteorološki događaj, a izlaze izvan uporabe bezličnih glagola,
npr. maglovito je, mraz je na tlu. Unutarjezična raznolikost meteoroloških izraza u hrvatskom nadalje se
analizira prema semantičkim svojstvima dinamičnih i statičnih meteoroloških pojava, leksikalizacijskim
obilježjima koja su kodirana meteorološkim glagolima (Lik, Put i Način), kontekstnom usidrenju
meteorološkog izraza, načinu zbivanja te pojmovima primarnih i sekundarnih meteoroloških izraza. Na
temelju leksikografskih i korpusnih podataka, u ovom se radu predlaže nacrt za daljnje sustavno proučavanje
domene meteorološkog vremena, posebice s obzirom na leksikalizaciju meteoroloških događaja i pojavnosti
Diminutives in Action: A cognitive account of diminutive verbs and their suffixes in Croatian
No full textU radu se raspravlja o deminutivnim glagolima u hrvatskome unutar teorijskog okvira kognitivne lingvistike, s naglaskom na deminutivne glagole tvorene sufiksacijom. Semantička analiza deminutivnih glagola temelji se na modelu radijalne strukture, koji u analizu deminutiva uvodi Jurafsky (1996). Međutim, nasuprot Jurafskyevu modelu koji gradnju značenja deminutivnih glagola, za razliku od drugih vrsta riječi, analizira kao postupak operacije lambda–apstrakcije u radu se zagovara djelovanje dviju konceptualnih metafora na oblikovanje glagolskih značenja, VIŠE JE GORE (MANJE JE DOLJE) i DOBRO JE GORE (LOŠE JE DOLJE). Kako bi se dobio pregled mogućih značenja deminutivnih glagola, stvorena je baza deminutivnih glagola, izgrađena prema podacima dobivenima iz leksikona hrvatskih glagola CroDeriV. Baza deminutivnih glagola dostupna je kao dio CroDeriV baze glagola. Na temelju baze deminutivnih glagola izdvojena su semantička obilježja relevantna za oblikovanje deminutivnih značenja u domeni glagolskih radnji. Šest obilježja na koja utječu deminutivni glagolski sufiksi jesu: fizički intenzitet, prostorna usmjerenost radnje, usmjerenost mentalne pozornosti, veličina odsječaka radnje, kontinuitet i kvaliteta radnje. Na temelju ovih semantičkih obilježja izdvajaju se četiri kategorije deminutivnih glagola te se raspravljaju njihove specifične karakteristike i stupnjevitost ovih kategorija u radijalnoj strukturi. Prototipnu kategoriju radijalne strukture deminutivnih glagola čine glagoli umanjenoga fizičkog intenziteta, dok su druge dvije kategorije glagoli neusmjerenih radnji (prostornih i mentalnih) te pejorativni glagoli. Također se raspravljaju obilježja specifična za glagolske kategorije, poput iterativnosti, distributivnosti i durativnosti, koja utječu na semantiku deminutiva na različit način od imenskih deminutiva. Tako se uvodi pojam plurakcionalnosti, odnosno segmentacije radnje na manje i brojnije odsječke, kao pojam relevantan za opis značenja deminutivne semantike glagola.This paper deals with a semantic analysis of diminutive verbs in Croatian, focusing on diminutive verbs formed by diminutive suffixes. In order to account for the semantic properties of diminutive verbs, a cognitive linguistic framework is adopted and a radial category model of diminutive verb semantics is proposed. Phenomena specific to verbal semantics, such as pluractionality, are also discussed in relation to diminutive semantics. Contrary to Jurafsky (1996), the semantics of diminutive verbs is accounted for in terms of two conceptual metaphors MORE IS UP (LESS IS DOWN) and GOOD IS UP (BAD IS DOWN) that motivate the formation of diminutive meanings. The central position of the radial category is given to the category of verbs of diminished physical intensity, and two other categories are proposed, verbs of dispersive actions and pejorative verbs. The classification is based on an inventory of diminutive verbs built upon the data from the Croatian Derivational Verb Database
- …
