The Evolution of Complex Spatial Expressions Within the Romance Family

A Corpus-Based Study of French and Italian
Approx. VIII + 267 Pp. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-31457-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoelbeek, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Hoelbeek, Ph.D. (2014), Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Universite´ Libre de Bruxelles, is currently Maître de Langue within the Faculty Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has published various articles on the semantic evolution of complex spatial expressions in French, including A diachronic analysis of French "a`/au travers" in combination with the preposition "de" (2015).