Ebook: Qualitative-Quantitative Analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans Grammar and Lexicon
Author: Robert S. Kirsner
- Genre: Linguistics // Linguistics
- Tags: Языки и языкознание, Лингвистика, Когнитивная лингвистика и лингвоконцептология
- Series: Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 67
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Language: English
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Sharing certain assumptions but differing in theory and practice, both Columbia School linguistics (CS) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) have increasingly supported their analyses with quantitative evidence. Citation of individual sentences, in isolation or in context, has been supplemented with counts of linguistic forms in texts, informant questionnaires, and perception tests. The present volume, continuing a dialogue between CS and CG, offers six such qualitative-quantitative studies, one on Afrikaans and five on Dutch. Topics include (a) demonstratives, (b) pragmatic particles and imperatives, (c) a puzzling “dismissive” idiom, (d) progressive aspect, and (e) indirect objects. While CS is better suited for analyzing relatively closed systems (e.g. tense, pronouns), CG provides more insight into the vagaries of the amorphous lexicon. The author also offers personal remarks on “linguistics as a path” and discusses how in one case a wrong prediction reflects his dual role as both linguist and student of Dutch as a foreign language.
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