Binominal Quantifiers in Spanish: Conceptually-driven Analogy in Diachrony and Synchrony

Katrien Dora Verveckken

Published by De Gruyter 2015

Binominal Quantifiers in Spanish

Conceptually-driven Analogy in Diachrony and Synchrony

Katrien Dora Verveckken

Volume 391 in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110406733

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Quantification is central to human experience (cf. Aristotle’s Organon): the most basic aspects of human life and reasoning involve quantity assessment. This study sheds lights on a highly frequent way to express quantification in Spanish, viz. the binominal quantifier (e.g. un aluviónN1 de llamadasN2 ‘a flood of calls’) which assesses the quantity of N2 in terms of N1.

This volume offers a corpus-based, cognitive-functional analysis of binominal quantifiers (BQ) in Spanish. The first part is dedicated to the development of BQs and starts from the assumption that BQs are cross-linguistically involved in grammaticalization. This monograph frames the history of BQs in Spanish in terms of constructional levels of change and highlights the complex interplay between analogical thinking and conceptual persistence. The second part motivates both the ample variation in the paradigm of quantifying nouns and their combinatorial pattern by the very same mechanism of conceptually-driven analogy. The study thus yields an innovative functional model of BQs in Spanish, in synchrony and in diachrony, with major implications for reference grammars and theory building.

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Katrien Verveckken, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	II
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XV
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1. Preliminaries
2. Framework, state of the art and methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
3. Binominal quantifiers as a locus of grammaticalization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Part 2. Diachronic case-studies – towards a constructional network model
4. The development of montón de, a typical locus of grammaticalization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
5. The role of conceptual persistence and analogy in the development of BQs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
6. Theoretical reflection: a constructional network model of the development of BQs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Part 3. Synchronic case-studies – towards a constructional network model
7. QN-related schematization and N2-profiling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
8. The motivated nature of the QN-related coselection patterns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	400
9. Theoretical reflection: the notion of CIP revisited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	468
Part 4. Conclusions
10. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Sprachwissenschaftler, Romanisten, Hispanisten, Bibliotheken
Pages
- Front matter: 16
- Main content: 516
Keywords: Cognitive-functional Linguistics; Cognitive Semantics; Grammaticalization (of Constructions); Conceptualization in Quantification

eBook

Published: July 24, 2015
ISBN: 9783110406733

Hardcover

Published: June 26, 2015
ISBN: 9783110403718