Search results for "CONSTRUCTION"

Serial Verb Constructions

2009

The present article aims to give a survey of the typology of serial verb constructions (SVCs) and the criteria that are needed for defining them. For that purpose, it starts with a detailed account of Aikhenvald and Dixon (2006) and their comprehensive cross-linguistic account of SVCs. In a critical discussion of this approach, this article will then address the following three issues. (i) The concept of single eventhood is a more general concept from which a number of Aikhenvald and Dixon's (2006) criteria can be iconically derived. The macro-event property and time-positional operators (Bohnemeyer et al. 2007) provide a good basis for a more coherent definition of what makes an event as f…

Voices in discourses: Dialogism, Critical Discourse Analysis and ethnic identity

2006

In this article we attempt to combine the Bakhtinian, dialogical philosophy of language and critical discourse analysis (CDA) with our analysis of ethnic identity. The data we discuss are an interview with a Sami journalist who works in the Sami media. We analyse the interview from the points of view of dialogism and CDA to illustrate how identity must be understood as something which is both individual and social in nature.  We reject the earlier essentialist interpretations of identity which see it as purely individual and psychological in nature. At the same time, we argue that those views of identity that see it as exclusively socially constructed can be misleading as well. We aim to il…

The Lithuanian "have" - resultative - a typological curiosum?

2012

ABSTRACT Björn Wiemer. The Lithuanian HAVE-resultative - A Typological Curiosum? Lingua Posnaniensis, vol. LIV (2)/2012. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences. PL ISSN 0079-4740, ISBN 978-83-7654-252-2, pp. 69-81. This article presents the Lithuanian possessive resultative construction with the verb turėti ‘have’ and discusses its place in a typology of forms of resultative constructions. While possessive resultatives with a past passive participle (as in Polish Kolację mamy już przygotowaną lit. ‘We have the dinner already prepared’) are found in areally related as well as other languages, Lithuanian stands out in using an active participle (more precisely: a part…

Les constructions causatives avec mouvement en allemand : d'une saisie phraséologique à une explication constructionnelle

2013

International audience; Cet article propose une analyse constructionnelle de certaines structures de l'allemand (du type Sie sang das Kind in den Schlaf) en les situant par rapport aux constructions causatives avec mouvement (caused motion constructions) analysées en anglais par Goldberg (1995). La thèse centrale repose sur l'idée d'un continuum de causativité partant d'un côté de mini systèmes plus ou moins grammaticalisés et/ou lexicalisés (locutions à verbe fonctionnel) pour se clore sur des structures au premier abord difficilement explicables en termes de constructions régulières. La démonstration vise à mettre en évidence l'existence d'un schéma, relativement abstrait, commun aux diff…

Identidad social y discursiva del turista: su construcción a partir de la oferta de valores abstractos

2017

Este artículo examina cómo la página web hotelera mercantiliza valores simbólicos abstractos, y de qué manera ello incide en la construcción discursiva de un actor social 'turista'. Para ello se propone un análisis cualitativo desde el marco del Análisis Crítico del Discurso, concretamente desde la vertiente socio-cultural de Fairclough (2002), que a su vez parte del sistema de transitividad de Halliday (1985). Considerar la mercantilización de los valores abstractos resulta interesante en este contexto, pues se podría pensar que los hoteles ofrecen ante todo valores de tipo concreto y material, y no abstracto. Sin embargo, la representación mental de lo placentero y deseable en el turista,…

Spelling out consequences : conditional constructions as a means to resist proposals in organisational planning process

2016

Organisational planning processes often materialise as a series of meetings, where the future of the organisation is jointly discussed and negotiated as a part of local decision-making sequences. Using conversation and discourse analytical approaches, this article investigates how proposals concerning the future can also be resisted by employing a specific device, a conditional construction ( if X, then Y). The data for the study originate from a city organisation, whose customer services are being developed. The results show how the conditional constructions work in two interrelated ways. First, by introducing a problematic hypothetical situation, they outline the undesirable consequences…

Approcher les discours spécialisés par la méta-catégorie du figement

2018

Doctoral; Cet atelier doctoral, qui capitalise sur la présentation « Quelles approches cognitives pour les discours spécialisés ? » vise à discuter la pertinence pour l’approche des discours spécialisés de la notion de « figement », dans une acception cognitive large, détachée des conceptions traditionnelles de « figement morpho-syntaxique ». En faisant un détour par le cas très particulier de gestion du figement dans les langues contrôlées, on pose comme hypothèse l’existence d’un continuum à rebours invitant à partir précisément du figement - envisagé comme stabilité quantitative et reproductible - pour analyser ces discours. La deuxième partie discute les apports respectifs des tradition…

EVLANG et la construction des aptitudes

2003

International audience

Baltu filoloģija, 26 (1)

2017

Gamma activity and geochemical features of building materials: estimation of gamma dose rate and indoor radon levels in Sicily.

2001

A high-purity germanium detector has been used to measure the abundance of radium (Ra), thorium (Th) and potassium (K) in building materials used in Sicilian dwellings. The measurements were performed to evaluate which material was suitable for the construction of an enclosure, which would have a low background emission. The materials examined in this work showed concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K dramatically variable depending on the lithologies, particularly in the case of blocks, sands and aggregates commonly used in building materials in Sicily. The results are discussed and a criterion is indicated to reduce the radiation dose to humans. Since radon inlet is a major health problem…