Author : Thomas Hoelbeek
Release : 2017-02-06
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Evolution of Complex Spatial Expressions within the Romance Family by : Thomas Hoelbeek
Download or read book The Evolution of Complex Spatial Expressions within the Romance Family written by Thomas Hoelbeek. This book was released on 2017-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Evolution of Complex Spatial Expressions within the Romance Family, Thomas Hoelbeek offers a corpus-based historical study of a group of expressions in French and Italian. Applying a functional approach, he tackles adpositions containing the French noun travers or the Italian noun traverso, previously never analysed from a diachronic perspective. This study enriches our knowledge of the expressions analysed and their functioning in the past, but also in present-day French and Italian, providing diachronic observations regarding functional notions put to the test. Thomas Hoelbeek’s work also contributes to a better understanding of the grammaticalisation mechanisms of complex constructions, and shows that typologically related languages may evolve differently in their ways of representing space.