Strategies of Reflexivisation and the Meaning of Predicates. A Contrastive Analysis of English, German, and French. Reihe: Aachen British and American Studies / Aachener Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik - Band 16.

Frühwirth, Andreas:

ISBN 10: 3631511469 / ISBN 13: 9783631511466

Published by Frankfurt, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Lang, 2003

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333 S. Tadelloses Exemplar. - Contents: Defining reflexivity Strategies of reflexivisation in English, German, and French Iconicity, economy, and markedness Marked and unmarked contexts Predicate directedness as motivation for strategy choice Implicational hierarchies Reflexivity of motion predicates Prototypicality in the reflexive domain. - Reflexive situations play a vital role in peoples lives and are consequently often encoded by specific grammatical devices. Many languages have more than one such strategy of reflexivisation at their disposal. The present study provides substantial evidence for its major claim that the preference for a particular strategy is motivated by that meaning component of the predicate which may be called directedness. A large number of data from English, German, and French are analysed contrastively and in great detail. The relevance of predicate directedness is also largely confirmed by data from related areas of reflexivity. Two implicational hierarchies emerge: a scale of directedness, and a hierarchy among German, French, and English regarding the weight of preferred reflexive strategies. (Verlagstext). ISBN 9783631511466 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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• Title: Strategies of Reflexivisation and the Meaning of Predicates. A Contrastive Analysis of English, German, and French. Reihe: Aachen British and American Studies / Aachener Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik - Band 16.
• Publisher: Frankfurt, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Lang
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631511469
• ISBN 13: 9783631511466
• Binding: Originalbroschur.
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 550 grams
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Synopsis

Reflexive situations play a vital role in people’s lives and are consequently often encoded by specific grammatical devices. Many languages have more than one such strategy of reflexivisation at their disposal. The present study provides substantial evidence for its major claim that the preference for a particular strategy is motivated by that meaning component of the predicate which may be called ‘directedness’. A large number of data from English, German, and French are analysed contrastively and in great detail. The relevance of predicate directedness is also largely confirmed by data from related areas of reflexivity. Two implicational hierarchies emerge: a scale of directedness, and a hierarchy among German, French, and English regarding the weight of preferred reflexive strategies.

About the Author

The Author: Andreas Frühwirth is assistant lecturer in English Linguistics at Aachen University of Technology. He studied English, French, and Linguistics at the Universities of Augsburg (D), Reading (GB), the Freie Universität Berlin (D), and Manchester (GB). From 1991 to 1992 he taught German as a foreign language at different schools in Blois (F), and from 1994 to 1996 at the University of Hertfordshire (GB). In 1998 he received his European Master’s Degree in Linguistics, and in 2003 his Ph.D.