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Data and argu­men­ta­tion in his­tor­i­cal prag­mat­ics: gram­mat­i­cal­iza­tion of a Cata­lan motion verb con­struc­tion
Data and Argu­men­ta­tion in His­tor­i­cal Prag­mat­ics has two inter­re­lat­ed aims, one empir­i­cal and one the­o­ret­i­cal.
The empir­i­cal aim of this vol­ume is to pro­vide a com­pre­hen­sive analy­sis of the begin­nings of a seman­tic change process in the gram­mat­i­cal­iza­tion of the medieval Cata­lan anar ‘go’ + infini­tive con­struc­tion, inves­ti­gat­ing it from a his­tor­i­cal prag­mat­ic per­spec­tive. Cata­lan is unique among Romance lan­guages in that a pur­po­sive con­struc­tion involv­ing this motion verb achieves a per­fec­tive past mean­ing. This evo­lu­tion is in con­trast with the uni­ver­sal path­way of verbs mean­ing ‘go’ to gram­mat­i­cal­ize into future mark­ers in sim­i­lar con­struc­tions, detect­ed in sev­er­al lan­guages of the world. Although this vol­ume dis­cuss­es a micro-lev­el study on a gram­mat­i­cal­iza­tion process which, accord­ing to the pre­vi­ous lit­er­a­ture, does not fit any uni­ver­sal ten­den­cy hith­er­to revealed, it also pro­vides new infor­ma­tion about the macro-lev­el process of seman­tic change of motion verbs in gen­er­al.
The the­o­ret­i­cal aim of this vol­ume is to exam­ine some method­olog­i­cal ques­tions in his­tor­i­cal prag­mat­ics and con­tribute in this way to recent met­alin­guis­tic dis­cus­sions on data, meth­ods and argu­men­ta­tion in lin­guis­tics. Method­olog­i­cal issues have not only been present in his­tor­i­cal prag­mat­ics since the begin­nings, but their res­o­lu­tion is seen as a cru­cial fac­tor which will deter­mine the future of this lin­guis­tic sub-dis­ci­pline.
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Ver­nac­u­lar aes­thet­ics in the lat­er Mid­dle Ages: pol­i­tics, per­for­ma­tiv­i­ty, and recep­tion from lit­er­a­ture to music
Ver­nac­u­lar Aes­thet­ics in the Lat­er Mid­dle Ages explores the for­mal com­po­si­tion, pub­lic per­for­mance, and pop­u­lar recep­tion of ver­nac­u­lar poet­ry, music, and prose with­in late medieval French and Eng­lish cul­tures. This col­lec­tion of essays con­sid­ers the extra-lit­er­ary and extra-tex­tu­al meth­ods by which ver­nac­u­lar forms and gen­res were obtained and exam­ines the roles that per­for­mance and oral­i­ty play in the recep­tion and dis­sem­i­na­tion of those gen­res, argu­ing that late medieval ver­nac­u­lar forms can be used to delin­eate the inter­ests and per­spec­tives of the sub­al­tern. Via an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approach, con­trib­u­tors use the­o­ries of mul­ti­modal­i­ty, trans­la­tion, man­u­script stud­ies, sound stud­ies, gen­der stud­ies, and activist New For­mal­ism to address how and for whom pop­u­lar, ver­nac­u­lar medieval forms were made.
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