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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: typology of reference systems
  name:
    name part: Frajzyngier, Zygmunt
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The term 'reference system' designates all functions within the grammatical system of a given language that indicate whether the addressee(s) should identify the referents of participants in the proposition and, if so, how they should identify the referents. Reference systems are a part of the semantic structure encoded in the grammatical system, and the study of reference systems contributes to the description of the semantic structure of individual languages. The present book offers a non-aprioristic typology of reference systems of typologically or genetically distinct languages including English, Mandarin, non-literate Russian, Polish, six Chadic languages spoken in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Chad, and a dozen Sino-Russian idiolect spoken in the far east of Russia for which no genetic relationship can be established. The analyses identify major functional domains, subdomains, and individual functions which enable the identification of participants in a proposition in individual languages. The book identifies the most frequent and least frequent functions that instruct the speakers whether to identify the participants and if so how to identify the participants in the propositions. The book demonstrates that bare nouns, pronouns, demonstratives, and determiners, coding on the verb ('agreement'), have different functions in different languages. The book offers explanations for these differences. The book draws some implications of the reference systems for the theory and methodology of semantic analysis, for linguistic typology, and for syntactic theories.
  table of contents: Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The goal of the study -- 1.2 The importance of the reference systems -- 1.3 Typology of reference systems -- 1.4 Methodology -- 1.5 The coding means within the system of reference -- 1.6 State of the art -- 1.7 The choice of languages -- 1.8 The terms used -- 1.9 Main findings and implications -- 1.10 Organization of the volume -- 2 The reference system of Mupun -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 State of the art -- 2.3 Formal means of coding for the system of reference
  table of contents: 2.4 Functions within the system of reference -- 2.5 No instructions to identify the referent -- 2.6 Previous mention -- 2.7 The status of relative clauses -- 2.8 Coding of the reference and typology of syntactic units -- 2.9 Anaphora at the clausal level -- 2.10 Reference to possessor -- 2.11 Locative anaphora -- 2.12 Reference at the level of complex sentence: Logophoricity -- 2.13 Reference to the environment of speech -- 2.14 Unspecified human subject -- 2.15 Non-human anaphora, time, and syntactic constraints
  table of contents: 2.16 Reference to the environment of speech and anaphora belong to different domains -- 2.17 A member of a set -- 2.18 Conclusions and implications -- 3 The reference system of modern Mandarin Chinese -- 3.1 The aim of the study -- 3.2 State of the art with respect to the reference system in Mandarin -- 3.3 Some typological characteristics of Mandarin -- 3.4 The data -- 3.5 Coding means in the Mandarin reference system -- 3.6 Same referent -- 3.7 Contrastive focus within the ongoing discourse -- 3.8 Deducing the referent from the current content -- 3.9 Deducing the referent from remote context
  table of contents: 3.10 No instructions to identify the referent -- 3.11 Individuated member of a class -- 3.12 Conclusions and implications -- 4 The reference system of Polish -- 4.1 Aim of the chapter -- 4.2 State of the art -- 4.3 The data -- 4.4 The formal means for the coding of reference in Polish -- 4.5 Reference of clausal relations and of the noun phrase -- 4.6 Referent of the subject -- 4.7 Referential functions of other grammatical relations -- 4.8 Referential functions of noun phrases -- 4.9 Selection of an entity from a group of potential entities
  table of contents: 4.10 Referent other than the one in the common sphere -- 4.11 De dicto domain only -- 4.12 Conclusions on Polish -- 5 The reference system in non-literary varieties of Russian -- 5.1 The aim of this chapter -- 5.2 State of the art -- 5.3 The data -- 5.4 The coding means in the reference system -- 5.5 Reference in the flow of discourse -- 5.6 The unknown plural agent -- 5.7 Referential functions of objects -- 5.8 The referents of the noun phrase -- 5.9 Topicalization -- 5.10 The deduced referent other than the default -- 5.11 Any member of a set -- 5.12 Conclusions and implications
  note: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Typology (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Typologie (Linguistique)
  subject:
    topic: Syntaxe
  subject:
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
  subject:
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, Comparative and general
    topic: Syntax
  subject:
    topic: Typology (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Language
  classification: P204 .F73 2023
  classification: 415
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    title info:
      title: A Typology of Reference Systems
    name:
      name part: Frajzyngier, Zygmunt
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2023
  identifier: 9780191918872
  identifier: 0191918873
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220126
    record change date: 20260318163730.6
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      language term: eng