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8 - In Different Languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2021

Maryann Overstreet  and
George Yule
Maryann Overstreet
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Manoa
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Summary

Chapter 8 provides a report on versions of general extenders, that is, their translation equivalents, in languages other than English. There are studies of two Creoles, in Trinidad and Hawai‘i, with an analysis of the phonological processes involved in their development. Comparable expressions are documented in a variety of languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Lithuanian, Persian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Notable differences between the expressions in Montreal French versus Parisian French are investigated. The relatively low frequency of disjunctive forms recorded in other languages is compared to English. Some observations are presented on where differences typically occur and the fact that several languages make use of interesting (non-referential) melodic expressions of a type not found in English, revealing some kind of aesthetic difference.

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aesthetic differencesCreolesfunctional correspondenceMontreal Frenchother languagesParisian Frenchsolidaritytonic stresstranslation equivalentsword order differences
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General Extenders
The Forms and Functions of a New Linguistic Category
 , pp. 151 - 176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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