Expressivity in European Languages

"Expressivity is a key feature of all language, yet its presence in European languages has been under-documented. With contributions from a team of leading scholars, this book addresses that gap, providing extensive data on the expressivity of a range of European languages. It is essential reading for linguists and anthropologists"--

List of contents

1. Introduction Jeffrey P. Williams; 2. Hypocoristic reduplications and embellished clippings in Hungarian (and elsewhere) Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó, Nikolett F. Gulyás and Laura Horváth; 3. Reduplication in Finno-Ugric languages Iwona Piechnik; 4. Expressivity in Scots: a study of echo words Jeffrey P. Williams; 5. Reduplication as expressive morphology in German Gerrit Kentner; 6. Expressives in Modern Greek: some morphological/morphosyntactic mechanisms for the expression of emotions Haritini Kallergi, Georgia Katsouda and Magdalene Konstantinidou; 7. Repetition and reduplication in Italian Anna M. Thornton; 8. Analysing expressives in a spoken corpus in Majorcan Catalan Nicolau Dols ; 9. A survey of Breton expressive words Mélanie Jouitteau ; 10. Vindicating the role of ideophones as a typological feature of Basque Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano; 11. Expressive constructions in Georgian and other Caucasian languages Thomas R. Wier; 12. Parameters of variation in the syntax of expressive size suffixes: case studies of Russian, German, Spanish, and Greek Olga Steriopolo, Giorgos Markopoulos and Vassilis Spyropoulos.

Summary

Expressivity is a key feature of all language, yet its presence in European languages has been under-documented. With contributions from a team of leading scholars, this book addresses that gap, providing extensive data on the expressivity of a range of European languages. It is essential reading for linguists and anthropologists.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey P. (Texas Tech University) Williams
• Assisted by: Jeffrey P. Williams (Editor), Williams Jeffrey P. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2023
• EAN: 9781108834032
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83403-2
• No. of pages: 390
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Indo-European languages