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Motion, transfer and transformation : the grammar of change in lowland Chontal /
Typologies are critical tools for linguists, but typologies, like grammars, are known to leak. This book addresses the question of typological overlap from the perspective of a single language. In Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, a language of southern Mexico, change events are expressed with three types...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 95. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Typologies are critical tools for linguists, but typologies, like grammars, are known to leak. This book addresses the question of typological overlap from the perspective of a single language. In Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, a language of southern Mexico, change events are expressed with three types of predicates, and each predicate type corresponds to a different language type in the well-known typology of lexicalization patterns established by Talmy and elaborated by others. O'Connor evaluates the predictive powers of the typology by examining the consequences of each predicate type in a vari. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027291875 902729187X |