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.

该研究项目是第一个对空间疑问词及其指示状语等价物的全面跨语言研究，因此对空间语法和空间语言学做出了重大贡献。该研究的重点是全球 464 种语言样本中受审讯的空间关系系统（与指示状语领域的系统相反）。特别关注空间疑问词（哪里？哪里？从哪里？）和空间副词指示词（那里、那里、那里）的范式方面。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率（由萨里形态学组定义），旨在建立空间类别地点、目标、来源之间的相互关系。基于空间疑问句获得的见解将与先前致力于一般陈述性从句中的空间关系的研究以及（首次跨语言研究）特别是在指示状语领域中的空间关系的研究进行比较。主要任务包括回答是否可以用基于一般原理的系统来描述空间疑问词的问题。因此，该项目也是对疑问性研究的贡献——迄今为止，空间类别在很大程度上被忽视了。作为一个可行的假设，我们假设不仅在空间疑问词的情况下而且在指示状语的情况下都存在系统性。该项目一方面调查这种假定的系统性是否以及在多大程度上取决于句子情态，另一方面，该项目试图确定空间疑问系统和状语指示词系统在多大程度上受到遗传、区域或类型因素。将采用定性和定量方法。将分析文学平行语料库。为了进一步分析的目的，将依赖相关的描述性语言来源。附加数据是根据调查问卷收集的。至于方法论和理论，该项目位于功能类型学的框架内 - 更具体地说，位于规范类型学的框架内。