Complementarity Between Lexis and Grammar in the System of Person

A Systemic Typological Approach

Pin Wang (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

120 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-20441-6 (ISBN)

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This book investigates the lexico-grammatical complementarity in language in its construal of person as a semantic system. Given the vast and wide spectrum of resources for expressing distinctions in the assignment of person roles in language, this book presents person-related system networks covering a rich range of semantic features. It also studies the system of person in relation to other major semantic systems instead of regarding it as one isolated component of language parallel to gender, number, case, etc. Systemic features of person are in turn realized by lexicogrammar, whose components, lexis and grammar form a relationship of complementarity in the process of transforming human experience into meaning. Person-related meaning can be either realized by lexical means, i.e. entity, process, quality, or grammatical means, i.e. pronouns, clitics, affixes, zero forms. Besides, such meaning is also found to be realized at some indeterminate areas along the lexis-grammar continuum. A special feature of this book is that it observes the lexicalization and grammaticalization of person based on evidence from a variety of languages. Readers will be presented a comprehensive look into the meaning of person and will be encouraged to reflect on its realization in their own languages.

Pin Wang is a lecturer in the School of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, teaching English and Sanskrit. His research interests are: Systemic Theory, Functional Grammar, and Functional Language Typology, with particular focus on classical languages (e.g. Sanskrit) and minority languages of China (e.g. Tibetan).

Figures and Tables. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Systemic Theories and Lexicogrammar Chapter 3 Person as a System Chapter 4 Lexicalization and Grammaticalization of Person Chapter 5 Complementarity Between Lexis and Grammar: a Systemic Functional perspective Chapter 6 Conclusion. Bibliography. Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	China Perspectives
Zusatzinfo	12 Tables, black and white; 35 Line drawings, black and white; 47 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	317 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-138-20441-2 / 1138204412
ISBN-13	978-1-138-20441-6 / 9781138204416
Zustand	Neuware