{"product_id":"9780198844297-the-emergence-of-functions-in-language","title":"Butters Marielle (Phd Student Phd Student University Of Colorado Boulder) - The Emergence Of Functions In Language - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: This volume explores the question of why languages - even those spoken in the same geographical area by people who share similar social structures occupations and religious beliefs - differ in the meanings expressed by their grammatical systems. Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Marielle Butters outline a new methodology to explore these differences and to discover the motivations behind the emergence of meanings. The motivations that they identify include: the communicative need triggered when the grammatical system inherently produces ambiguities; the principle of functional transparency; the opportunistic emergence of meaning whereby unoccupied formal niches acquire a new function; metonymic emergence whereby a property of an existing function receives a formal means of its own thus creating a new function; and the emergence of functions through language contact. The book offers new analyses of a range of phenomena across different languages such as benefactives and progressives in English and point of view of the subject and goal orientation in Chadic languages. It also draws on a wealth of data from other languages including French Spanish Polish Russian and a variety of less familiar Sino - Russian idiolects.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Emergence Of Functions In Language\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Butters Marielle (Phd Student Phd Student University Of Colorado Boulder)\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780198844297\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 336 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 2\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Grammar, Syntax \u0026amp; Morphology","brand":"Butters Marielle (Phd Student Phd Student University Of Colorado Boulder)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49592385962289,"sku":"IN-G-9780198844297","price":146.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780198844297.jpg?v=1753223208","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780198844297-the-emergence-of-functions-in-language","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}