Where - Whither - Whence: Spatial interrogatives and their adverbial demonstrative equivalents in Europe and far beyond

何处 - 何处 - 何处：空间疑问词及其在欧洲及其他地区的指示状语等价物

基本信息

批准号：
319446122
负责人：
Professor Dr. Thomas Stolz
金额：
--
依托单位：
Fach Linguistik
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2015-12-31 至 2018-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/319446122?language=en
关键词：
Where Whither Whence Spatial interrogatives

项目摘要

This research project is the first comprehensive cross-linguistic investigation on spatial interrogatives and their adverbial demonstrative equivalents, which thus contributes substantially to the grammar of space and linguistics of space in general. The focus of the study is on the system of spatial relations under interrogation (in contrast to their system in the domain of adverbial demonstratives) in a global sample of 464 languages. Attention is paid particularly to the paradigmatic aspects of spatial interrogatives (where? whither? whence?) and spatial adverbial demonstratives (there, thither, thence). By way of comparing systematically both the degree of complexity and the occurrence of mismatches (as defined by the Surrey Morphology Group) in the above tripartite paradigms it is intended to establish the interrelations of the spatial categories PLACE, GOAL, SOURCE. The insights gained on the basis of spatial interrogatives will be compared to those of previous research dedicated to the spatial relations in declarative clauses in general and (studied crosslinguistically for the first time) in the domain of adverbial demonstratives in particular. A major task consists of answering the question whether it is possible to describe spatial interrogatives in terms of a system based on general principles. Therefore the project is also a contribution to the investigation of interrogativity - an area in which spatial categories hitherto have largely been neglected. As a working hypothesis it is assumed that there is systematicity, not only in the case of spatial interrogatives but also as to that of adverbial demonstratives. The project investigates, on the one hand, whether and in how far this assumed systematicity depends on sentence modality, on the other hand, the project attempts to determine to what extent spatial-interrogative-systems and those of adverbial demonstratives are subject to genetic, areal or typological factors. Qualitative as well as quantitative methods will be employed. A literary parallel corpus will be analysed. For the purpose of further analyses the relative descriptive-linguistic sources will be relied upon. Additional data are collected on the basis of a questionnaire. As to methodology and theory the project is situated within the framework of functional typology - more specifically within that of canonical typology.

该研究项目是对空间疑问及其副词示范等效物进行的首次全面跨语言研究，因此，这对整个空间的空间语法和语言学总体上做出了重大贡献。该研究的重点是在审讯中的空间关系体系（与它们在副词示范域中的系统相比）在464种语言的全球样本中。特别注意空间疑问的范式方面（在哪里？通过系统地比较上述三方范式中的复杂程度和不匹配的发生（由萨里形态组定义）（由萨里形态组定义），旨在建立空间类别位置，目标，来源的相互关系。将根据空间疑问剂获得的见解与以前有关声明性条款中空间关系的研究的洞察力（首次进行了跨语言），尤其是在副词示范的领域中。一项主要任务包括回答一个问题，是否可以根据一般原则来描述系统的空间疑问。因此，该项目也是对审讯的研究的贡献 - 迄今已忽略了迄今为止空间类别的领域。作为一个工作的假设，假定存在系统性，不仅在空间疑问中，而且是关于副词的咨询剂的情况。一方面，该项目研究了假定系统性取决于句子模式的多远，另一方面，该项目试图确定空间交流系统的程度和副词示范的系统在多大程度上受到遗传，面积或类型学因素的约束。将采用定性和定量方法。将分析文学平行语料库。为了进一步分析，将依靠相对描述性语言来源。根据问卷收集其他数据。至于方法论和理论，该项目位于功能类型的框架内 - 更具体地说是在规范类型中。