Existential sentences in English and Lithuanian : a contrastive study

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knyga / Book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Existential sentences in English and Lithuanian: a contrastive study
Authors:
Kalėdaitė, Violeta
Publication Data:
Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2002.
Pages:
247 p
Series:
European university studies. Series 21, Linguistics; vol. 248
Notes:
Bibliografija.
Contents:
Acknowledgements — List of tables — Notational conventions — List of abbreviations — General introduction — Issues and preliminary investigation — Aim and scope — Theoretical framework and method — Terminology — Organisation of the thesis — Relevant aspects of theoretical framework — Word order typology — Information structuring — Definiteness and indefiniteness: basic observations — Space, time, and existence — Summary — English existentials: an overview of general characteristics — Existential sentences: definition and classification — On the syntax and semantics of the existential there-construction — Summary — Existential sentences in Lithuanian — Introduction — Existentials in Lithuanian: relevance of a new approach — Lithuanian existentials: the semantics of basic sentence patterns — Communicative types of ESs in Lithuanian — Existential sentences in Lithuanian: summary of basic properties — Existential sentences: English and Lithuanian contrasted — Introduction: towards a tertium comparatiortis — Correspondences — Contrasts — Revised hypotheses — Summary and conclusion — Summing up — Principal findings — Suggested areas for future research — Forms of the verb būti ‘be’ — Types of existential sentences in Lithuanian: relevant examples — Bibliographical abbreviations — References.
Keywords:
LT
Anglų kalba / English language; Kalbos dalys. Morfologija / Morphology; Žodžių jungimas. Sakiniai. Sakinio dalys / Word phrases. Sentences. Sentence parts.
Summary / Abstract:

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Gramatika; Anglų kalba; Egzistencinės konstrukcijos; Egzistenciniai sakiniai; Lyginamoji gramatika; Leksiniai veiksmažodžiai; Grammar; English language; Existential constructions; Existential sentences; Comparative grammar; Lexical verbs.

ENExistential sentences in the world’s languages tend to develop specific morphological, syntactic, and lexical properties. The present work offers a contrastive functional analysis of these constructions in two typologically unrelated languages, English and Lithuanian. The study focuses on the relationship between the syntactic structure of different existential sentence types and their meaning; it also explores the semantic and pragmatic parameters relevant to the structural differences within a single language and across the two compared languages. Most importantly, a new definition of the existential sentence, which takes into account both semantic and syntactic criteria, is proposed for Lithuanian. The findings are drawn on the basis of the corpus and highlight conspicuous differences in the linguistic representations of the construction in the two languages. With respect to Lithuanian, communicative word order variations, language-specific structures (the BKI and the impersonal passive), and a wider use of lexical verbs present an area of special interest. [amazon.com]

ISBN:
3631394543
Subject:
Kalbotyra / Linguistics
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