Language, Cognition and Identity. Extensions of the endocentric/exocentric language typology
- Edited by:
- Emanuela Cresti,
- Iørn Korzen,
An endocentric language is a language whose verbs are lexically precise and concrete whereas its nouns are abstract and vague. An exocentric language has lexically precise and concrete nouns and abstract verbs. The Germanic languages prove to be endocentric and the Romance languages exocentric. The lexical differences entail differences at other levels as well, linguistic as well as extralinguistic. This multilingual volume contains a selection of papers presented at the two day Italian-Danish linguistic seminar Lingua, cognizione e identità: estensioni della tipologia delle lingue endo- ed esocentriche held at the Italian Department of the University of Florence on the 22nd and 23rd of September 2009.
The papers challenge the endo-/exocentric approach at various levels (lexicon, grammar, language infrastructures, socio cultural reflections) with examples from the Romance languages (Italian and French) and the Germanic languages (English, German and Danish).
- Keywords:
- Linguistica,
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-226-4
- Series: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca
- Scientific Board: Consiglio Editoriale FUP 2010-2016
- Language: English
- Subjects: Literature
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3018-6120
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Iørn Korzen is a full professor and head of the Department of Italian at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He is a member of the CBS based research group "TypoLex", whose main focus is the typological differences between the Germanic and the Romance languages. Korzen presided the Società Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana (SILFI) from 2002 to 2004 and has published a number of books and more than 100 articles on text linguistics, Italian linguistics and pragmatics.
- Publication Year: 2010
- Pages: 226
- eISBN: 978-88-6453-226-4
- Content License: CC BY-ND 3.0 IT
- © 2010 Author(s)
- Publication Year: 2010
- eISBN: 978-88-9273-668-9
- Content License: CC BY-ND 3.0 IT
- © 2010 Author(s)
- Publication Year: 2010
- Pages: 226
- ISBN: 978-88-6453-220-2
- Content License: CC BY-ND 3.0 IT
- © 2010 Author(s)
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Book Title
Language, Cognition and Identity. Extensions of the endocentric/exocentric language typology
Editors
Emanuela Cresti, Iørn Korzen
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
226
Publication Year
2010
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© 2010 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-226-4
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978-88-6453-220-2
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978-88-6453-226-4
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978-88-9273-668-9
Series Title
Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca
Series ISSN
2704-6249
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2704-5870
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