This article first outlines the principle of a cognitive semiotics,and in this framework presents a sign classification taking into consideration the crucial importance of time.It then offers a stratified interpretati...This article first outlines the principle of a cognitive semiotics,and in this framework presents a sign classification taking into consideration the crucial importance of time.It then offers a stratified interpretation of the Lotmanian concept of semiosphere,and continues with a study of the contradiction holding between cultural and socio-functional meanings.This leads to an analysis of ethnic passions and ethnic identity,and finally to a new analysis of homo metonymicus,and the two underlying cognitive structures based on the genitive and the dative schemas,that orient the human imaginary,for better or for worse.展开更多
This paper is meant to indicate the different functional tasks covered by the two multifunctional bound morphemes: j9- and in Ezha. The former is found to mark accusative, genitive and dative cases. The latter, on the...This paper is meant to indicate the different functional tasks covered by the two multifunctional bound morphemes: j9- and in Ezha. The former is found to mark accusative, genitive and dative cases. The latter, on the other hand, renders the functions of contrastive focus marking, converb marking, declarative clause marking in the affirmative perfective, and coordination. After a thorough description of their functions, it is attempted to propose as to whether the various roles rendered by the two forms relate to distinctive homophonous morphemes or to a single morpheme. The required data for this study were collected from native speakers primarily through elicitation, and this method was supplemented by recording free narratives.展开更多
Mesqan is a South Ethio-Semitic tonguewhich is mainly worn in day-to-day message by a people of on 179,737 communities in the Gurage Zone,Ethiopia,whose linguistic skin were not well expressed.The inner aspire of this...Mesqan is a South Ethio-Semitic tonguewhich is mainly worn in day-to-day message by a people of on 179,737 communities in the Gurage Zone,Ethiopia,whose linguistic skin were not well expressed.The inner aspire of this paper is to offer a complete account of noun phrase structures of the Mesqan tongue.The paper is expressive in character,as the lessons is mostly worried with telling what is really being in the tongue,and mostly relies on main linguistic facts.The linguistic facts,i.e.the elicited grammatical facts regarding noun phrases,was composed from local speakers of the tongue during 12 months of fieldwork mannered among 2011 and 2012 in four Mesqan villages and in Butajira,the managerial hub of the Mesqan Woreda.The head of a NP can be a pronoun,a noun or an adjective.The head alone can constitute a full noun phrase.Adjectives,nouns in the genitive,or relative clauses function as modifiers of head nouns.Quantifiers are numerals,unspecific quantifiers,determiners include the definite marker,demonstrative pronouns,and possessive suffixes occur in two positions to the head noun.Only the demonstrative pronouns and the number‘one’when used as indefinite marker occur in phrase-initial position,while all other determiners follow the head.展开更多
文摘This article first outlines the principle of a cognitive semiotics,and in this framework presents a sign classification taking into consideration the crucial importance of time.It then offers a stratified interpretation of the Lotmanian concept of semiosphere,and continues with a study of the contradiction holding between cultural and socio-functional meanings.This leads to an analysis of ethnic passions and ethnic identity,and finally to a new analysis of homo metonymicus,and the two underlying cognitive structures based on the genitive and the dative schemas,that orient the human imaginary,for better or for worse.
文摘This paper is meant to indicate the different functional tasks covered by the two multifunctional bound morphemes: j9- and in Ezha. The former is found to mark accusative, genitive and dative cases. The latter, on the other hand, renders the functions of contrastive focus marking, converb marking, declarative clause marking in the affirmative perfective, and coordination. After a thorough description of their functions, it is attempted to propose as to whether the various roles rendered by the two forms relate to distinctive homophonous morphemes or to a single morpheme. The required data for this study were collected from native speakers primarily through elicitation, and this method was supplemented by recording free narratives.
文摘Mesqan is a South Ethio-Semitic tonguewhich is mainly worn in day-to-day message by a people of on 179,737 communities in the Gurage Zone,Ethiopia,whose linguistic skin were not well expressed.The inner aspire of this paper is to offer a complete account of noun phrase structures of the Mesqan tongue.The paper is expressive in character,as the lessons is mostly worried with telling what is really being in the tongue,and mostly relies on main linguistic facts.The linguistic facts,i.e.the elicited grammatical facts regarding noun phrases,was composed from local speakers of the tongue during 12 months of fieldwork mannered among 2011 and 2012 in four Mesqan villages and in Butajira,the managerial hub of the Mesqan Woreda.The head of a NP can be a pronoun,a noun or an adjective.The head alone can constitute a full noun phrase.Adjectives,nouns in the genitive,or relative clauses function as modifiers of head nouns.Quantifiers are numerals,unspecific quantifiers,determiners include the definite marker,demonstrative pronouns,and possessive suffixes occur in two positions to the head noun.Only the demonstrative pronouns and the number‘one’when used as indefinite marker occur in phrase-initial position,while all other determiners follow the head.
