Reflexives : forms and functions
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Reflexives : forms and functions
（Typological studies in language, v. 40）
J. Benjamins, c2000
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Description
The importance of reflexive markers in the study of language structure cannot be underestimated: they participate in the coding of the argument structure of a clause; in the coding of semantic relations between arguments and verbs; in the coding of the relationship between arguments; in the coding of aspect; in the coding of point of view; and in the Coding of the information structure of a clause.
The present volume offers an approach to reflexive forms and functions from several perspectives: a formal approach where reflexives are discussed within a well-defined model of language representation; a typological approach; a historical approach concentrating on grammaticalization of reflexives and on the changes that pronouns and anaphors undergo; and a functionalist approach where functions of reflexive forms are described. The languages from which data were drawn represent a wide variety of language families and language types: English, Old English, Dutch, German, Tsakhur (Nakh-Dagestanian), Spanish, French, Bantu and Chadic languages. The variety of languages discussed and the different approaches taken complement each other in that each contributes an important piece to the understanding of reflexives in a cross-linguistic perspective.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction (by Frajzyngier, Zygmunt)
- 2. The fine structure of grammar: Anaphoric relations (by Reuland, Eric J.)
- 3. Intensifiers and reflexives: A typological perspective (by Konig, Ekkehard)
- 4. The structural and lexical space between reflexive binding and logophorics: Sundry paradigms of reflexives and anaphora (by Abraham, Werner)
- 5. The typology and grammaticalization of reflexives (by Schladt, Mathias)
- 6. Domains of point of view and coreferentiality: System interaction approach to the study of reflexives (by Frajzyngier, Zygmunt)
- 7. Conceptual distance and transitivity increase in Spanish reflexives (by Maldonado, Ricardo)
- 8. Bound pronouns and non-local anaphors: The case of Earlier English (by Gelderen, Elly van)
- 9. Reflexives and emphasis in Tsaxur (Nakh-Dagestanian) (by Lyutikova, Ekaterina)
- 10. What it means to deceive yourself: The semantic relation of French reflexive verbs and their corresponding transitive verbs (by Waltereit, Richard)
- 11. Subject index
- 12. Author index
- 13. Language index
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