Screen LibraryOn comitatives and related categories : a typological study with special focus on the languages of Europe /
This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general lingui...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2008] ©2006 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Empirical approaches to language typology [ealt] ;
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| Summary: |
This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. General linguists with an interest in case, functional typologists, grammaticalisation researchers and experts of markedness issues will value this book as an important contribution to their respective fields of interest. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (562pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110197648 |
| Index Number: | P240 |
| CLC: | H04 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part A The long and winding road leading from -- intuition via problems to comitatives -- Part B What happens when a universal blows up? -- Metaphor, syncretism, markedness -- Part C Europe: A continent where many things appear -- to be the same but turn out to be different under the -- looking-glass -- Part D Something better change! Origins, -- life-cycle, contacts: The dynamics of comitatives -- Backmatter |