The Norwegian Nominal System : a Neo-Saussurean Perspective.

The Norwegian Nominal System : a Neo-Saussurean Perspective.

This study presents a unified, economic account of the intricate relationship between form, meaning and interpretation in the Norwegian nominal system - without reference to polysemy. It covers all kinds of nominal signs, i.e. nouns, adjectives, pronouns and determiners, as well as the conventionali...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Halmøy, Madeleine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs TiLSM.
Subjects:
Norwegian language > Nominals.
Norwegian language > Morphology.
Norwegian language > Grammar.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements ; Table of contents ; Abbreviations ; List of tables, figures and grammatical definitions ; 1 Introduction ; 2 Theoretical, empirical and methodological foundations ; 2.1 Theory: signifié/signifiant ; 2.1.1 Arbitrariness and conventions.
  • 2.1.2 Saussure and syntax: linearity, limitations of arbitrariness 2.1.3 Neo-Saussurean syntax ; 2.1.4 Summary and implications ; 2.2 The object of study: synchrony/diachrony and langue/parole ; 2.2.1 Synchrony/diachrony ; 2.2.2 Delimiting the object of study in time and space.
  • 2.2.3 Langage, langue, parole 2.2.4 Further delimiting the object of study
  • the Norwegian Nominal System ; 2.3 Methodology ; 2.3.1 Syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic relations, value and signification ; 2.3.2 The contrastive view ; 2.3.3 The concrete data.
  • 2.4 Neo-Saussurean grammar vs. other current theories 2.4.1 Neo-Saussurean grammar and (European) structuralism ; 2.4.2 Neo-Saussurean vs. generative gramar ; 2.4.3 Neo-Saussurean vs. cognitive linguistics and construction grammar(s) ; 2.4.4 Summary ; 2.5 Closing the chapter.
  • 3 Norwegian nouns and adjectives 3.1 Norwegian nouns ; 3.2 The Norwegian definite forms ; 3.2.1 Distribution and interpretation of the definite forms
  • definiteness as identifiability ; 3.2.2 Implicit or "missing" possessives ; 3.3 The Norwegian Indefinite Plural.

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