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Pour une typologie de la négation
No full textRamat Paolo. Pour une typologie de la négation. In: Annexes des Cahiers de linguistique hispanique médiévale, volume 7, 1988. Hommage à Bernard Pottier. pp. 659-669
Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology – An overview
No full textIn this paper, we propose a critical discussion of the rationale for this volume. After a short introduction (Section 1), an outline of the long-standing opposition between language particular description and universal grammar in the history of the language sciences is provided (Section 2). This opposition indeed represents the substrate on which our ‘comparative concepts debate’ is based: a summary of the debate, both in the form it had in the LINGTYP mailing list (January / February 2016) and in the subsequent monographic issue of Linguistic Typology 2016, thus, is offered in Section 3 and Section 4. Some critical consideration on the debate and on its relation with the various branches of linguistics are presented in Section 5. An overview of the papers included in the volume closes this introduction (Section 6)
On Parts-of-speech Transcategorizations
No full textWe investigate the linguistic phenomenon of transcategorization, that is, the categorial shift of a lexical item with no superficial marking, resulting from its employment in a new (morpho)syntactic environment. Our overall aim is to contribute to the description of transcategorization processes from a typological perspective and to highlight their synchronic consequences on the structure of the lexicon. We analyse paradigmatic instances of transcategorization from typologically different languages and discuss the notion of transcategorization with reference to related notions such as conversion, precategoriality, flexibility and polifunctionality. We argue that transcategorization, understood as a diachronic shift from a source to a target category, is more characteristic of languages with clear-cut parts-of-speech distinctions, such as fusional languages. By contrast, isolating languages, where lexical categories are not clearly marked formally, are better characterized as languages with precategorial lexemes. Our main goal is to stress the role that transcategorization plays in shaping the parts-of-speech systems of languages and to highlight its relevance in parts-of-speech theories and models
Europe and the Mediterranean as linguistic areas. Convergencies from a historical and typological perspective
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Remarks on marginal possession: are feelings owned?
No full textThe article is divieded in three parts concerning the problem of expressing linguistic possession (Paolo Ramat), the strategies used in the Mediterranean languages to express particular kinds of possessivity such as feelings (Elisa Roma) and which expresions are used for 'being right' in the Mediterranean area and beyod (Gianguido Manzelli
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