Towards a typology of specificational constructions
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2024-2007" target="_blank" >10.1515/stuf-2024-2007</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Towards a typology of specificational constructions
Original language description
The present work is devoted to the syntax of specificational constructions with proper names within a typological perspective. The provided typology is based on the results obtained from the analysis of grammar descriptions and available corpus data for 94 languages. The paper discusses the morphosyntactic means that languages use to express specification, namely juxtaposition, attribution, and other less common strategies. It is shown that juxtapositional and attributive strategies are in competition in many of the sampled languages, so that certain expressions (for example, specificational constructions with the common noun 'city') prefer attributive-like coding, while others (especially constructions including personal names) show a clear tendency for juxtapositional coding cross-linguistically. Evidence from languages using an attributive strategy in specificational constructions shows that the common noun is generally the syntactic head of the construction. This conclusion contributes to the wide-scale discussion of the semantic grounds for headedness in specificational constructions. In addition, the paper shows that languages tend to place common nouns before personal proper names regardless of the word order used in specificational constructions with toponyms. This, as predicted, is correlated with the relative ordering of the head noun and its genitival dependent. The results of the present study also show that the constituent ordering in constructions with personal names implicationally depends on the order in constructions with toponyms.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Language typology and universals (Internet)
ISSN
1867-8319
e-ISSN
2196-7148
Volume of the periodical
77
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
45
Pages from-to
189-233
UT code for WoS article
001262638000003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85198090404