Measuring nominal descriptivity
- Using Ultan's theory of descriptivity grading as a starting point, I will attempt to capture this differential utility in terms of [...] criteria of literalness, explicitness and syntactic complexity. I will first briefly present his System and investigate some generalizations which he has proposed on the basis of his study of body part terminologies in numerous languages. I will apply his theory to nouns in this and four other semantic domains, in three North American Indian languages. I will test his generalizations and propose some new ones. I will then present an alternative system of descriptivity grading and compare the results of its application with those of Ultan's system. In the final section I will suggest another methodology for quantification. An appendix at the end of the paper lists all of the descriptive lexical items mentioned, graded according to both systems.
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| Author: | Julius Moshinsky |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-251228 |
| Parent Title (German): | Kölner Universalienprojekt: Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts ; Nr. 24 |
| Series (Serial Number): | Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts : akup (24) |
| Publisher: | Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln |
| Place of publication: | Köln |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 1976 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1976 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2012/08/08 |
| GND Keyword: | Deskriptivität; Sprachtypologie; Indianersprachen |
| Page Number: | 66 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 349586284 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Quantitative Linguistik / Quantitative linguistics |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Lexikologie/Etymologie / Lexicology/Etymology | |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
