The Linguistic Realization of the Situation Types

1991 ◽  
pp. 65-90
Author(s):  
Carlota S. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Situation Types

Light and heavy reflexive marking

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 239-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreea S. Calude
Keyword(s):  
Current Paper ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Semantic Property ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Middle Domain ◽  
Cognitive Theories ◽  
The Common ◽  
Situation Types ◽  
Middle Constructions ◽  
Insight Into

In Romanian, the middle marker se is employed to encode five distinct situation types: reflexive, reciprocal, (medio-)passive, inchoative and impersonal. This work identifies the relationships among the different uses of the marker and puts forward explanations for them within a cognitive, functional framework. Following studies such as those by Faltz (1985), Haiman (1983), Haspelmath (2005), Kemmer (1993ab), Lakoff (1977), Manoliu-Manea (1994, 2000), Maldonado (1992, 1999), Manney (2000), and Yoshimura and Taylor (2004), the current paper gives a synchronic account of the Romanian Middle Domain, its organization and the relationships between the various middle constructions found inside it. Findings suggest that the semantic property of low elaboration of events (introduced by Kemmer, 1993ab) constitutes the common denominator among the different uses explored. This work provides an insight into Romanian itself, as well as a contribution to cognitive theories of human language and responds to the call for more data and further investigations of middles cross-linguistically (see Smith, 2004).

Applying systemic functional linguistics in healthcare contexts

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (4-5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Section 8 ◽  
Systemic Analysis ◽  
Medical Consultations ◽  
Healthcare Communication ◽  
Situation Types

AbstractThis paper is concerned with research on healthcare communication that draws on Halliday's systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Section 1 introduces Halliday's notion of appliable linguistics, with SFL as a particular manifestation. Section 2 deals with instances of healthcare communication in the form of medical consultations, and shows how they can be illuminated through SF text analysis. Section 3 relates medical consultations to institutions of healthcare along two dimensions, stratification and instantiation; and it suggests that institutions can be analyzed as aggregates of situation types. Section 4 considers the field of activity within healthcare contexts, suggesting how texts in situation types characterized by different fields complement one another. Section 5 adds tenor considerations in the form of the institutional healthcare roles across fields. Section 6 explores patient journeys through hospitals as sequences of situation types. Section 7 asks how risks and failures inherent in patient journeys can be interpreted, and then analyzed and addressed, in terms of the orders of systems in a hospital. Section 8 continues this systemic analysis, applying them to patients, and Section 9 extends the analysis to healthcare systems, as semo-technical systems. Section 10 shows how relationship-centered healthcare can be interpreted in terms of SFL.

scholarly journals Renovating Situation Taxonomies: Exploring the Construction and Content of Fundamental Motive Situation Types

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Morse ◽  
Rebecca Neel ◽  
Elysia Todd ◽  
David Funder
Keyword(s):  
Situation Types

scholarly journals A corpus-based two-level model of situation aspect

2004 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHONGHUA XIAO ◽  
ANTHONY McENERY
Keyword(s):  
Clause Structure ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Verb Classes ◽  
Two Component ◽  
Viewpoint Aspect ◽  
Situation Aspect ◽  
Level Model ◽  
Situation Types ◽  
Two Level Model

In this paper we will extend Smith's (1997) two-component aspect theory to develop a two-level model of situation aspect in which situation aspect is modelled as verb classes at the lexical level and as situation types at the sentential level. Situation types are the composite result of the rule-based interaction between verb classes and complements, arguments, peripheral adjuncts and viewpoint aspect at the nucleus, core and clause levels. With a framework consisting of a lexicon, a layered clause structure and a set of rules mapping verb classes onto situation types, the model is developed and tested using an English corpus and a Chinese corpus.

Aspectuality and countability: a cross-categorial analogy

1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurel J. Brinton
Keyword(s):  
Mass Nouns ◽  
Count Nouns ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Situation Types

This paper expands the analogy between events and count nouns, and between states/activities and mass nouns in English to include other situation types, including iteratives, habits, and multiple situations. It explores the evidence used to make such analogies, namely, the quantificational features of deverbal nouns, as each of the deverbalizing devices in English has its own aspectual qualities. It shows further that a number of parallels can be drawn between different types of bounding and debounding in the nominal and verbal domains. Finally, the paper presents a schema of the cross-categorial analogies relating to inherent meaning (mass/count features in nouns, situation types in verbs) and the semantic operations of (de)bounding and (de)collectivizing (quantificational and aspectual modification).

Quasi-passive reflexive constructions: Bridging autonomous and passive situations

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liljana Mitkovska ◽  
Eleni Bužarovska
Keyword(s):  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Potential Type ◽  
Intended Interpretation ◽  
Modal Semantics ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Situation Types ◽  
Scalar Analysis

AbstractIt is common for languages crosslinguistically to employ the same verb form in several diathetic constructions distinguished by a different degree of agent suppression. In South Slavic languages the so called ‘quasi-passive reflexive se-constructions’ (QRCs) encode a number of non-factual situations, expressing an array of semantically close meanings unified by modal semantics. The paper argues that QRCs in South Slavic languages represent a gradient category comprising potential, normative and generalizing situation types. The difference between these subclasses depends on the degree of implication of the agent in the construction: the agent is indirectly evoked in the potential, its presence can be felt in the normative, and a non-referring agent is present in the generalizing constructions. The intended interpretation of QRCs is obtained through the predicate-participant relation and pragmatic factors. In shaping the setting the latter may trigger overlapping between the subclasses. The goal of the paper is to prove that QRCs supply the cognitive link between anticausative reflexive (coding autonomous events) and passive reflexive constructions (coding agent defocusing situations): the potential type is closer to anticausatives, while the generalizing type shows affinity with passives. Such scalar analysis of QRCs may contribute to a better understanding of the typology of reflexive constructions.

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