Course contents and suggested bibliography

 

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10. The syntax/semantics interface
CLAUDE HAGEGE (Collège de France, Paris)

I. THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS CLASH AND THE SPEAKERS’

CHOICES FROM A SYNCHRONIC POINT OF VIEW

  1. When syntax and semantics clash
  2. Agreement as a strategy to ensure structural cohesion
  3. The humanization of grammar in various language types
  4. The anthropophoric system

    II. THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE FROM A DIACHRONIC

    POINT OF VIEW

  5. Negation and expressive renewal
  6. Subjecthood and subjectivity
  7. Semantic parameters of grammaticalization 1
  8. Semantic parameters of grammaticalization 2

    III. SYNTAX VS SEMANTICS IN THE LIGHT OF SEMI-CONSCIOUS

    LANGUAGE BUILDING

  9. The paths of morphosyntactic building 1
  10. The paths of morphosyntactic building 2

 

REFERENCES

Bybee, J. and P. Hopper, 2001, Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: J. Benjamins.

Dezső, L., 1982, Studies in Syntactic Typology and Contrastive Grammar, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.

Hagège, C., 1980, "Three viewpoints on the organization of linguistic utterances", The Sixth LACUS Forum, Columbia: Hornbeam Press, 68-77.

Hagège, C., 1989, "Linguistic theory. A contribution to an anthropological project", Diogène 145, 17-35.

Hagège, C., 1997, "Language as a faculty, languages as ‘contingent’ manifestations and humans as function builders", in Reconnecting Language. Morphology and Syntax in Functional Perspective, ("Current Issues in Linguistic Theory"154) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: J. Benjamins.

Hagège, C., 2001, La structure des langues, (« Que sais-je ? » 2006) Paris : Presses Universitaires de France (6th ed.).

Lehmann, C., 1995, Thoughts on Grammaticalization, (LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 01) München - Newcastle: Lincom Europa.

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