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Demonstratives : form, function, and grammaticalization.
All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Netherlands :
John Benjamins,
1999.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language : v. 42.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each section. |
| ISBN: | 9789027298577 9027298572 1556196563 9781556196560 1556196571 9781556196577 9027229430 9789027229434 9789027229427 9027229422 1282162837 9781282162839 9786612162831 661216283X |