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Space and time in languages and cultures : linguistic diversity /

This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages such...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Filipović, Luna, Jaszczolt, Katarzyna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Colección:Human cognitive processing ; v. 36.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages such as Bezhta, French, Hinuq, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish, among others. The contributions on linguistic expression of time all shed new light on pertinent questions regarding this cognitive domain, such as the hotly debated relationship between cross-linguistic differences in talki.
Notas:14. Expressing simultaneity using aspect.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027273611
9027273618
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9781281143976
9786613776693
6613776696