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The Grammar of Space.
A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language. The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1994.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 25. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language. The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding and expression of spatial relations centers around the emergence and evolution of spatial grams, and the semantic and morphosyntactic characteristics of two types of spatial grams. The author bases her observations on the study of data from 26 genetically unrelated and randomly selected languages. It is. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027276575 9027276579 1283312794 9781283312790 9786613312792 6613312797 |
| ISSN: | 0167-7373 ; |