This volume proposes a new way to address the classical question concerning the relation between language, cognition, and culture from the perspective of two basic systems: deixis and the pronominal system. It investigates the linguistic structuring of basic concepts of person, place and time in Romance languages, disclosing structural differences that may be related to mental parameters and other extra-linguistic circumstances and thus possibly linked to a light revision of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. The methodological and theoretical focus is based on the discursive and pragmatic functional approach to deixis. The articles concern linguistic variation and language change, and most of the studies adopt cross linguistic perspectives, primarily among Romance languages, but also with a classical perspective from Ancient Greek discussing the existence of universal categorical patterns. The studies reveal similarities and differences between Romance languages mutually, and set the stage for comparisons between Romance and non-Romance languages. These similarities and differences are subject to change in connection with cultural developments in society and offer in this volume a coordinated effort in exploring the linguistic expressions of these extra-linguistic concepts.
Konstanze Jungbluth, Federica Da Milano. Table 5:Personal pronoun paradigm in BP eu falo você/tu/ele/agente fala vocês/eles falam In comparison to the EP norm – and the norm still proclaimed in many grammar books of BP – the verbal ...
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field.
Hanks, William (2008), A língua como prática social – das relações entre língua, cultura e sociedade a partir de Bourdieu e Bakhtin, São Paulo, Cortez. Jakobson, Roman (1963), Les embrayeurs, les catégories verbales et le verbe russe, ...
Hulk and Müller (2000) propose that cross-linguistic interaction takes place at the syntax/pragmatics interface given a surface overlap between simultaneously acquired languages. We tested this prediction in two domains: (a) the ...
Weak-pronoun Position in the Early Romance Languages
LINKING SOCIAL CHANGE AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE KOINEIZATION IN EARLY CASTILE DONALD N. TUTEN Emory University Spanish, or more specifically medieval Castilian, has often been acknowledged to represent an exceptional or even 'deviant' ...
This volume contains revised versions of papers given at a conference at the Manoir de Brion, in Normandy.
This is the fourth such volume, containing a selection of the papers that have been presented at the 2002 conference, which was held at the State University of Groningen. The three-day program included a workshop on Acquisition.
The volumes Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory published in the series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory contain the selected papers of the Going Romance conferences, a major European annual discussion forum for theoretically ...
This volume contains a peer reviewed selection of invited contributions, papers and posters that were presented at the 2018 venue of Going Romance (XXXII) in Utrecht (a four day program that included two thematic workshops).