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This volume is the first dedicated to the comprehensive, in-depth
analysis of constructions with nouns like ‘type’ and
‘sort’. It focuses on type noun constructions in Romance,
Germanic and Slavic languages, integrating the different
descriptive traditions that had been developed for each language
family. As a result, a greater variety of type noun constructions
is revealed than in the hitherto more fragmented literature. But
attention is also drawn to the cross-linguistic similarity of the
new pragmatic meanings, such as ad hoc and approximative
categorization, hedging, focus and filler uses, and the new
grammatical functions in NPs (e.g. phoric uses), clauses (e.g.
adverbial uses) and complex sentences (e.g. quotatives). The volume
offers survey chapters of type noun constructions in each language
family as well as contributions focusing on specific aspects in one
or two languages, such as their grammar, semantics and pragmatics,
diachronic development, discursive and sociolinguistic variety.
These complementary methodologies elucidate the unique
cross-linguistic field of type noun constructions both
descriptively and theoretically. Hence, this volume can also serve
as a model for similar surveys in other functional domains.
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