On nominal tense

Bertinetto, Pier Marco

doi:10.1515/lingty-2020-2033

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“…Tonhauser (2008); cf. nunmehr Bertinetto (2020) für eine Erweiterung der Perspektive auch auf andere ‚verbale' Kategorien bei Nomina.…”

Section: Genus Als Variable Grammatische Kategorieunclassified

Grammatik, Höflichkeit und Gender in der Zweiten Person.

Simon¹

2021

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In this paper, I study various manifestations of the grammatical category gender in address-related forms, above all in second person pronouns. It will be shown that its use is intricately connected with politeness – either because the gendered pronouns of address are themselves polite forms or because they can, under certain circumstances, convey nuances of social gender and concomitant connotations. The languages studied include, among others, Japanese, Arabic and other Semitic languages, as well as historical and dialectal varieties of German and Italian.

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“…Tonhauser (2008); cf. nunmehr Bertinetto (2020) für eine Erweiterung der Perspektive auch auf andere ‚verbale' Kategorien bei Nomina.…”

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Grammatik, Höflichkeit und Gender in der Zweiten Person.

Simon¹

2021

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Entity, event, and sensory modalities: An onto-cognitive account of sensory nouns

Zhong

Ahrens

Huang

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Nouns in human languages mostly profile concrete and abstract entities. But how much eventive information can be found in nouns? Will such eventive information found in sensory nouns have anything to do with the cognitive representation of the basic human senses? Importantly, is there any ontological and/or cognitive motivation that can account for this noun–verb dichotomy via body-and-world interactions? This study presents the first comprehensive investigation of sensory nouns in Mandarin Chinese, examining their qualia structures formalised in the Generative Lexicon Theory, as well as the time-dependent (endurant–perdurant) properties encoded in their sensory modalities. This study fills the gap in sensorial studies by highlighting the pivotal position of nouns in sensory experiences and provides insights into the interactions between perception, cognition, and language. Further, it establishes, for the first time, the cognitive motivation of the categorial noun–verb bifurcation without presupposing any a priori knowledge of grammatical categories.

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Beyond nominal tense

Aikhenvald

2021

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Tariana, an Arawak language from Brazil, has nominal markers which convey temporal and aspectual information about the noun phrase. Besides nominal future, there is a distinction between completed and non-completed nominal pasts. The completed nominal past has three meanings – decessive (‘late, gone’), temporal (‘former’), and commiserative or deprecatory (‘poor thing’). The latter is only applicable to humans and higher animates. The non-completed nominal past has a further semantic component of relevance of the state or property for the present time. The usage of the markers is governed by the principle of communicative necessity – in contrast to clausal, or propositional, tense-cum-evidentiality markers which are always obligatory. Having special means for expressing tense, aspect and relevance within a noun phrase – distinct from tense and aspect categories with clausal scope – constitutes a typologically rare feature of the language.

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On nominal tense

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Grammatik, Höflichkeit und Gender in der Zweiten Person.

Grammatik, Höflichkeit und Gender in der Zweiten Person.

Entity, event, and sensory modalities: An onto-cognitive account of sensory nouns

Beyond nominal tense

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