15 Czech type nouns: Evidence from corpora

Janebová, Markéta; Martinková, Michaela; Gast, Volker

doi:10.1515/9783110701104-015

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On similative demonstratives in Czech and English

Janebová,

Martinková

2023

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This paper is a contrastive corpus-based study of similative demonstratives, a major means of expressing similarity and ad-hoc categorization. It explores the divergence between the Czech demonstrative takový and its English dictionary equivalent such in their “atypical” – extended, or non-phoric – uses. Through the triangulation of comparable fiction texts, their translation (from a bidirectional translation corpus) and spoken language data (from comparable monolingual corpora of spoken English and Czech), converging evidence is found of the development of discourse functions of the Czech takový which shows an increase in its intersubjectivity, not attested with such, but common with the English type nouns sort, kind, and type. These cross-linguistic parallels are not only relevant for current discussions on intersubjectivity and intersubjectification, but they also call for further research on general patterns of ad-hoc categorization.

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On similative demonstratives in Czech and English

Janebová,

Martinková

2023

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Diatopic variation as evidence for diachronic changes in the 20th and 21st centuries

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Vazeilles

2024

Pragmatics &Amp; Beyond New Series

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In Latin American varieties of Spanish there is a series of pragmatic markers that fulfil similar functions. Tipo, onda and como are mitigators, but they also express approximation, exemplification, focalisation, discourse structuring and quotation. Pragmatic functions arise in the 20th century, although approximating como goes back to Old Spanish. Corpus data, metalinguistic comments and cross-linguistic observations point to the countercultures of the 20th century as a probable trigger leading to pragmaticalisation. We propose a comparative study of acceptability judgements of the three markers in their Argentinian and Mexican varieties, contributing to a semantic map showing different stages of pragmaticalisation which, combined with other data, offers insights into diachronic processes that emerged in the 20th century.

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15 Czech type nouns: Evidence from corpora

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On similative demonstratives in Czech and English

On similative demonstratives in Czech and English

Diatopic variation as evidence for diachronic changes in the 20th and 21st centuries

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