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On comitatives and related categories : a typological study with special focus on the languages of Europe /
This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general lingui...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
33. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. A. The long and winding road leading from intuition via problems to comitatives
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Some problems with form and function
- 3. Goals
- 4. Categories, definitions and terminology
- 5. Methodology and theory
- 6. Corpus/sample
- 7. Structure
- pt. B. What happens when a universal blows up? : metaphor, syncretism, markedness
- 8. The companion-metaphor
- 9. Syncretism
- 10. Systematicity of interaction
- pt. C. Europe : a continent where many things appear to be the same but turn out to be different under the looking-glass
- 11. A corpus-based analysis
- 12. Case studies
- pt. D. Something better change! Origins, life-cycle, contacts : the dynamics of comitatives
- 13. Grammaticalisation
- 14. Contact
- 15. This is the end.