{"product_id":"emergence-of-functions-in-language-c-9780198844297","title":"Emergence of Functions in Language C","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 Eng\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1: Introduction 2: Methodology 3: Forced interpretation: The emergence of the comment clause 4: Systemic ambiguity as a motivation in the emergence of logophoricity 5: The emergence of benefactive function in English 6: The emergence of point-of-view of the subject 7: The emergence of goal orientation 8: The principle of functional transparency as a motivation for the emergence of functions 9: Inherent properties of verbs and nouns and the emergence of the locative function 10: The emergence of functions through metonymy and language contact: Relationships between propositions 11: The emergence of complex action as an outcome of the availability of coding means 12: The emergence of gender and number coding in content questions 13: The emergence of grammatical relations 14: The emergence of a functional domain through language contact 15: Conclusions and implications","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036454355287,"sku":"9780198844297","price":102.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198844297.jpg?v=1750932120","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/emergence-of-functions-in-language-c-9780198844297","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}