Indeterminacy in grammar and acquisition

Autor:	Demetra Katis, Kiki Nikiforidou
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Metonymy Grammar media_common.quotation_subject Modern Greek Cognition Indeterminacy (literature) Language and Linguistics Linguistics Conceptual blending Developmental and Educational Psychology Sociology Indeterminate media_common
Zdroj:	Review of Cognitive Linguistics. 8:1-18
ISSN:	1877-976X 1877-9751
DOI:	10.1075/rcl.8.1.01kat
Popis:	The formalist definition of relative clauses as a clearly distinct construction with two syntactically linked clauses has been recently questioned by cross-linguistic evidence. It is here further undermined by a discussion of constructions in Modern Greek, which although deviating from the structural definition conform nonetheless to a semantic-pragmatic one. Above all, acquisition data is presented as independent support for a unified approach to relatives, which can be based on conceptual integration. Syntactically underspecified relatives are shown to appear as early as syntactically-driven ones, with those based on more transparent semantic linking of clauses preceding those based on pragmatic linking. This suggests early handling of the metonymic nature of grammar but also a growing cognitive ability for more indeterminate grammatical relationships.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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