Type -noun binominals in four Romance languages

Mihatsch, Wiltrud

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2015.05.009

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“…Results from comparative analyses provide evidence that not only that tipo is being used innovatively by teenage speakers in Rio de Janeiro, but also that the frequency in the use of these innovative forms has been increasing significantly in the past 50 years. Binominal type nouns such as tipo have been of interest to researchers in several languages such as Italian (Voghera 2013), English (Traugott 2008), Russian (Kolyaseva & Davidse 2018), Portuguese (Bittencourt 1999;Lima-Hernandes 2005), and Spanish (Fernández 2017;Mihatsch 2016). This study contributes to the field of sociolinguistics -more specifically Brazilian sociolinguisticsby providing an empirical account of the current functions and frequency of tipo in the speech of teenagers in Rio de Janeiro.…”

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“…Tipo is a masculine noun of Greek origin (typos, 'mold'). It is a taxonomic noun commonly found in binominal constructions 4 (N1 of N2tipo + de ('of') + noun 5 ) in which tipo is the head of N1 (Mihatsch 2016). Tipo can be inflected for number and can be preceded by a determiner, a numeral, or a quantifier (e.g., alguns tipos, 'some types').…”

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“…In this paper, I will not provide a detailed account of binominal taxonomic nouns Mihatsch (2016). provides a comprehensive discussion about these constructions.5 Although this is the most common structure found in examples using tipo as a noun, this is a flexible syntactic constraint.…”

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Tipo: Inovação e mudança no português brasileiro

Thompson¹

2019

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This paper provides an empirical account of the synchronic variation in the use of the noun TIPO (‘type’, ‘kind’)in the Brazilian Portuguese vernacular. Innovation in its use, first documented by Bittencourt (1999), suggests TIPO may be performing functions beyond those of a noun. To investigate innovation in its use, this study focuses on the speech of teenagers born and raised in Rio de Janeiro. Although this group has been shown to be in the forefront of linguistic innovation (D’Arcy, 2005; Tagliamonte, 2016), research on the speech of adolescents remains scant in Brazilian Portuguese. This paper[1]aims to fill this gap by presenting the results of two analyses of empirical data collected between 2015 and 2018 (the author and collaborator).[2]Results indicate that TIPO is not only salient in participants’ speech but also that non-nominal forms of TIPO are more frequently used by speakers (97.98%) when compared to its nominal form (2.02%). Findings suggest that uses of non-nominal TIPO are systematic and linguistically defined: TIPO is most often found in pre-clausal position or preceding a noun phrase. Findings also show that TIPO is performing functions beyond those of a noun, such as a preposition and an adverb.

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Tipo: Inovação e mudança no português brasileiro

Thompson¹

2019

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“…It is not possible to reduce intentional vagueness to a limited set of linguistic-cognitive operations, but from the studies carried out in recent years (Channel 1994;Jucker et al 2003;Mihatsch 2010Mihatsch , 2016Mihatsch , 2020Overstreet 1999Overstreet , 2011, three operations, with large areas of overlapping, seem to be highly recurrent: generalisation, approximation, attenuation. All B utterances in the preceding dialogues have a low discriminating power due to the use of the implicit analogy expressed by the general extender robe del genere 'stuff like that' in ( 14), the unresolved alternative expressed by the construction with the number pair tre quattro 'three four' in (15) (Voghera 2019) and by the answer given in interrogative form in ( 16), which is a courtesy attenuative strategy because the speaker, instead of giving a straight answer, apparently leaves the decision on the time of dinner to the recipient.…”

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The role of diminutive suffixes in the Italian Time Nouns constructions: From approximation to focus?

Voghera

2023

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The time nouns (TNs), minuto (‘minute’), momento (‘moment’), attimo (‘instant’) can be part of constructions in which they keep all their categorial and syntactic properties, but also in constructions which seem to undergo a process of grammaticalisation: loss of categorial property of nominal inflection; the sequence DET+TN (un attimo, un momento, un minuto) can no longer be interrupted by modifiers nor have postnominal modifiers; semantic shift from the original temporal meaning to the more general meaning of a ‘(small) indefinite amount’, to continue towards more properly grammatical values of quantifiers to pragmatic values of hedges, alerter and textual marker of focus. Interestingly, while the original temporal constructions do not occur in diminutive forms, the departure from temporal meaning makes the use of diminutive forms possible. The article explores in which cases they are allowed and the semantic and textual factors which contribute to their presence.

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“…Table 1 offers a list of the most common types of VEs, based on Channel (1994), in the three languages we consider in this article: English, Italian and Spanish. In recent years, a number of studies have noticed that there is a great similarity in the way languages express intentional vagueness (Cutting 2007;Ghezzi 2013;Mihatsch 2007Mihatsch , 2016Voghera&Collu in press). This encourages interlinguistic studies, though it is not easy to compare VEs crosslinguistically because of their multiple functions.…”

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Vagueness expressions in Italian, Spanish and English task-oriented dialogues

Voghera

Borges

2017

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In this article, we present a corpus-based analysis on the use of Vagueness Expressions (VEs) in Italian, Spanish and English in Task-oriented Dialogues. Following the distinction among informational, relational and discourse vagueness (Voghera 2012), we compare the width of the functional space of the most frequent VEs. In particular we investigate whether and to what extent the VEs cover all the types of vagueness in the three languages. Quantitative and qualitative analysis brings evidence about a high convergence in the vagueness functions expressed by the VEs of the three languages.

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Type -noun binominals in four Romance languages

Cited by 18 publications

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Tipo: Inovação e mudança no português brasileiro

Tipo: Inovação e mudança no português brasileiro

The role of diminutive suffixes in the Italian Time Nouns constructions: From approximation to focus?

Vagueness expressions in Italian, Spanish and English task-oriented dialogues

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