Spatial interrogatives in Europe and beyond : where, whither, whence /
The extant generalizations about the grammar of space rely heavily on the analyses of declarative sentences. There is a need to check whether these generalizations also hold in the domain of interrogation. To this end this book analyzes data from some 450 languages (including non-standard varieties)...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2017]
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Colección: | Studia typologica ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The formal relations of spatial interrogatives
- 3. WHERE, WHITHER, and WHENCE in the languages of Europe
- 4. The big world
- 5. Spatial relations across sentence-types
- 6. Conclusions.