Books by Tanya Karoli Christensen
Hyperparadigms
an investigation of paradigmatic interplay in Danish mood systems
Ph.D.-disse... more Hyperparadigms
an investigation of paradigmatic interplay in Danish mood systems
Ph.D.-dissertation, September 2006
by Tanya Karoli Christensen
This dissertation defends the view that a paradigmatic perspective is necessary for the analysis and description of grammar, and that the concept of a paradigm – traditionally used about sets of inflexional endings – can also be construed and generalised to cover oppositions of word order and semilexical systems of particles. Paradigmatic organisation is a far more pervasive feature of the language system than previously thought.
The concept of a grammatical paradigm elaborated in the dissertation is functional in that the content side of paradigms, their coded meaning potential, is considered crucial. A thorough investigation of Hjelmslev’s writings on morpheme categories (1935, 1942, 1972) leads to an adaptation of his model to a wider conception of grammatical paradigms than his own, i.e. not only to morphological (flexional) paradigms, but also to topological (word order) paradigms, and even further to subgroups of lexical classes (the members of which share grammatical properties).
On the basis of such a broad concept of paradigms, the notion of hyperparadigms is proposed to account for certain relations between different domains or mo¬dules of gram-mar. Two different types of hyperparadigms are considered: One, the synthetic (i.e. com-bining to a whole) hyperparadigm, combines forms from two formally different basic paradigms into a complex whole, a new sign system. The other, the parallel hyperpara-digm, simply encompasses different basic paradigms grammaticalising the same domain of meaning, or in Hjelmslevian terms: the same conceptual zone (cf. Chapter 2).
The theory is applied to a number of different basic paradigms in Danish, all related to the substance domain of modality, thereby coding mood. The investigation applies to verbal mood (indicative vs. imperative), two word order based moods (the two general word order patterns in Danish and the option empty vs. filled first position in the marked instance of these), and to several groups of modal particles. The paradigms are first analysed and described individually, and then their hyperparadigmatic status is discussed and evaluated.
Papers by Tanya Karoli Christensen
Ny forskning i grammatik, 2004
Betingelser for brug af denne artikel Denne artikel er omfattet af ophavsretsloven, og der må cit... more Betingelser for brug af denne artikel Denne artikel er omfattet af ophavsretsloven, og der må citeres fra den. Følgende betingelser skal dog vaere opfyldt: • Citatet skal vaere i overensstemmelse med "god skik" • Der må kun citeres "i det omfang, som betinges af formålet" • Ophavsmanden til teksten skal krediteres, og kilden skal angives, jf. ovenstående bibliografiske oplysninger. Søgbarhed Artiklerne i de aeldre numre af Ny Forskning i Grammatik (1993-2012) er skannet og OCR-behandlet. OCR står for 'optical character recognition' og kan ved tegngenkendelse konvertere et billede til tekst. Dermed kan man søge i teksten. Imidlertid kan der opstå fejl i tegngenkendelsen, og når man søger på fx navne, skal man vaere forberedt på at søgningen ikke er 100 % pålidelig.
Ny forskning i grammatik, 2010
Betingelser for brug af denne artikel Denne artikel er omfattet af ophavsretsloven, og der må cit... more Betingelser for brug af denne artikel Denne artikel er omfattet af ophavsretsloven, og der må citeres fra den. Følgende betingelser skal dog vaere opfyldt: • Citatet skal vaere i overensstemmelse med "god skik" • Der må kun citeres "i det omfang, som betinges af formålet" • Ophavsmanden til teksten skal krediteres, og kilden skal angives, jf. ovenstående bibliografiske oplysninger. Søgbarhed Artiklerne i de aeldre numre af Ny Forskning i Grammatik (1993-2012) er skannet og OCR-behandlet. OCR står for 'optical character recognition' og kan ved tegngenkendelse konvertere et billede til tekst. Dermed kan man søge i teksten. Imidlertid kan der opstå fejl i tegngenkendelsen, og når man søger på fx navne, skal man vaere forberedt på at søgningen ikke er 100 % pålidelig.
Ny forskning i grammatik, 2012
Betingelser for brug af denne artikel Denne artikel er omfattet af ophavsretsloven, og der må cit... more Betingelser for brug af denne artikel Denne artikel er omfattet af ophavsretsloven, og der må citeres fra den. Følgende betingelser skal dog vaere opfyldt: • Citatet skal vaere i overensstemmelse med "god skik" • Der må kun citeres "i det omfang, som betinges af formålet" • Ophavsmanden til teksten skal krediteres, og kilden skal angives, jf. ovenstående bibliografiske oplysninger. Søgbarhed Artiklerne i de aeldre numre af Ny Forskning i Grammatik (1993-2012) er skannet og OCR-behandlet. OCR står for 'optical character recognition' og kan ved tegngenkendelse konvertere et billede til tekst. Dermed kan man søge i teksten. Imidlertid kan der opstå fejl i tegngenkendelsen, og når man søger på fx navne, skal man vaere forberedt på at søgningen ikke er 100 % pålidelig.
Sakprosa, 2020
This study takes a novel approach to the study of threatening communications by arguing that they... more This study takes a novel approach to the study of threatening communications by arguing that they can be characterized as a genre – a genre that generally carries strong connotations of intimidation, fear, aggression, power, and coercion. We combine the theoretical framework of Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) with results from theoretical and empirical analyses of threats to arrive at a more comprehensive perspective of threats. Since threats do not form part of any regular curriculum of genres, we designed a survey to test how recognizable they are. While scholars on threats describe threatening communications as remarkably varied in form and contextual features, the majority of our respondents categorized test items as threats without prompts of any kind, indicating that threats are a recognizable genre. We propose that threatening communications belong to a wider category of illicit genres: i.e. genres that generally disrupt and upset society and commonly affect their targets nega...
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Books by Tanya Karoli Christensen
an investigation of paradigmatic interplay in Danish mood systems
Ph.D.-dissertation, September 2006
by Tanya Karoli Christensen
This dissertation defends the view that a paradigmatic perspective is necessary for the analysis and description of grammar, and that the concept of a paradigm – traditionally used about sets of inflexional endings – can also be construed and generalised to cover oppositions of word order and semilexical systems of particles. Paradigmatic organisation is a far more pervasive feature of the language system than previously thought.
The concept of a grammatical paradigm elaborated in the dissertation is functional in that the content side of paradigms, their coded meaning potential, is considered crucial. A thorough investigation of Hjelmslev’s writings on morpheme categories (1935, 1942, 1972) leads to an adaptation of his model to a wider conception of grammatical paradigms than his own, i.e. not only to morphological (flexional) paradigms, but also to topological (word order) paradigms, and even further to subgroups of lexical classes (the members of which share grammatical properties).
On the basis of such a broad concept of paradigms, the notion of hyperparadigms is proposed to account for certain relations between different domains or mo¬dules of gram-mar. Two different types of hyperparadigms are considered: One, the synthetic (i.e. com-bining to a whole) hyperparadigm, combines forms from two formally different basic paradigms into a complex whole, a new sign system. The other, the parallel hyperpara-digm, simply encompasses different basic paradigms grammaticalising the same domain of meaning, or in Hjelmslevian terms: the same conceptual zone (cf. Chapter 2).
The theory is applied to a number of different basic paradigms in Danish, all related to the substance domain of modality, thereby coding mood. The investigation applies to verbal mood (indicative vs. imperative), two word order based moods (the two general word order patterns in Danish and the option empty vs. filled first position in the marked instance of these), and to several groups of modal particles. The paradigms are first analysed and described individually, and then their hyperparadigmatic status is discussed and evaluated.
Papers by Tanya Karoli Christensen
an investigation of paradigmatic interplay in Danish mood systems
Ph.D.-dissertation, September 2006
by Tanya Karoli Christensen
This dissertation defends the view that a paradigmatic perspective is necessary for the analysis and description of grammar, and that the concept of a paradigm – traditionally used about sets of inflexional endings – can also be construed and generalised to cover oppositions of word order and semilexical systems of particles. Paradigmatic organisation is a far more pervasive feature of the language system than previously thought.
The concept of a grammatical paradigm elaborated in the dissertation is functional in that the content side of paradigms, their coded meaning potential, is considered crucial. A thorough investigation of Hjelmslev’s writings on morpheme categories (1935, 1942, 1972) leads to an adaptation of his model to a wider conception of grammatical paradigms than his own, i.e. not only to morphological (flexional) paradigms, but also to topological (word order) paradigms, and even further to subgroups of lexical classes (the members of which share grammatical properties).
On the basis of such a broad concept of paradigms, the notion of hyperparadigms is proposed to account for certain relations between different domains or mo¬dules of gram-mar. Two different types of hyperparadigms are considered: One, the synthetic (i.e. com-bining to a whole) hyperparadigm, combines forms from two formally different basic paradigms into a complex whole, a new sign system. The other, the parallel hyperpara-digm, simply encompasses different basic paradigms grammaticalising the same domain of meaning, or in Hjelmslevian terms: the same conceptual zone (cf. Chapter 2).
The theory is applied to a number of different basic paradigms in Danish, all related to the substance domain of modality, thereby coding mood. The investigation applies to verbal mood (indicative vs. imperative), two word order based moods (the two general word order patterns in Danish and the option empty vs. filled first position in the marked instance of these), and to several groups of modal particles. The paradigms are first analysed and described individually, and then their hyperparadigmatic status is discussed and evaluated.