Research Catalog

Title

Qualitative-quantitative analyses of Dutch and Afrikaans grammar and lexicon / Robert S. Kirsner.

Author

Kirsner, Robert S., 1941-

Publication

• Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
• © 2013.

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Description

x, 239 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

Sharing certain assumptions but differing in theory and practice, both Columbia School linguistics (CS) and Cognitive Grammar (CG) have increasingly supported their analyses with quantitative evidence. Citation of individual sentences, in isolation or in context, has been supplemented with counts of linguistic forms in texts, informant questionnaires, and perception tests. The present volume, continuing a dialogue between CS and CG, offers six such qualitative-quantitative studies, one on Afrikaans and five on Dutch. Topics include (a) demonstratives, (b) pragmatic particles and imperatives, (c) a puzzling “dismissive” idiom, (d) progressive aspect, and (e) indirect objects. While CS is better suited for analyzing relatively closed systems (e.g. tense, pronouns), CG provides more insight into the vagaries of the amorphous lexicon. The author also offers personal remarks on “linguistics as a path” and discusses how in one case a wrong prediction reflects his dual role as both linguist and student of Dutch as a foreign language.

Series Statement

Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; 67

Uniform Title

Studies in functional and structural linguistics; v. 67.

Subject

• Dutch language > Semantics
• Afrikaans language > Semantics
• Dutch language > Grammar
• Afrikaans language > Grammar
• Dutch language > Lexicology
• Afrikaans language > Lexicology
• Niederländisch
• Afrikaans
• Semantik
• Grammatik
• Lexikologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The Dutch demonstrative adjectives : analyses and responses -- The Afrikaans demonstratives and instructional meanings -- On imperatives and pragmatic particles -- What it takes to understand how one Dutch idiom works -- Further explorations -- Afterword.

ISBN

• 9789027215772 (hb : alk. paper)
• 9027215774 (hb : alk. paper)
• 9789027271044 (eb)
• 9027271046 (eb)

LCCN

• ^^2013031135
• 40023466769

OCLC

• 855488816
• SCSB-12818077

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library