Ad hoc categorization in Russian and multifunctional general extenders
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Valentina Benigni
Abstract
Russian, as well as many other languages, displays a wide number of strategies to name non-lexicalized categories, that is, categories which have a conceptual reality, but are not encoded as single lexical items (e.g. fruit, furniture) or set phrases (e.g. equipment for sport, food for dog). One way to address this lack of lexical means is to provide one or more concrete exemplars of the intended category, in an attempt to capture the superordinate non-lexicalized concept. This paper aims to provide an overview of the different generalizing means used in Russian for the online construction of exemplar-driven categories, and, at the same time, to explore the interplay between discourse-resources (e.g. exemplification, listing and reformulation) and system-resources (e.g. collective affixation, co-compounding and discourse markers) in the process of categorization. Particular attention will be focused on the description of schematic general extenders, that is, partially lexicalized syntactic patterns, realizing the different extending, generalizing and similative functions of general extenders. The last part of the paper is devoted to a discussion of the processes of grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of the general extender i vse takoe ‘and so on’ (lit. ‘and all such’). The form is interesting because of its discursive multifunctionality.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Linguistic strategies for ad hoc categorization: theoretical assessment and cross-linguistic variation
- The role of exemplification in the construction of categories: the case of Japanese
- Categorization via exemplification: evidence from Italian
- Ad hoc categorization in Russian and multifunctional general extenders
- Alternative Relations and Higher-Level Categories
- From ad hoc category to ad hoc categorization: The proceduralization of Argentinian Spanish tipo
- Exemplification and ad hoc categorization: The genre-construction in French
- Collective suffixes and ad hoc categories: from Latin -ālia to Italian -aglia
- The encoding of ad hoc categories in Sanskrit: A synchronic and diachronic analysis of “compounds” with ādi-
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Linguistic strategies for ad hoc categorization: theoretical assessment and cross-linguistic variation
- The role of exemplification in the construction of categories: the case of Japanese
- Categorization via exemplification: evidence from Italian
- Ad hoc categorization in Russian and multifunctional general extenders
- Alternative Relations and Higher-Level Categories
- From ad hoc category to ad hoc categorization: The proceduralization of Argentinian Spanish tipo
- Exemplification and ad hoc categorization: The genre-construction in French
- Collective suffixes and ad hoc categories: from Latin -ālia to Italian -aglia
- The encoding of ad hoc categories in Sanskrit: A synchronic and diachronic analysis of “compounds” with ādi-
