On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia /
In this article, the historical development of sentential negation is compared across the Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages to make inferences about the expression of negation in the common Transeurasian proto-language. Integrating typological considerations, including gram...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2014]
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Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
volume 164. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In this article, the historical development of sentential negation is compared across the Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages to make inferences about the expression of negation in the common Transeurasian proto-language. Integrating typological considerations, including grammaticalization theory, into the argumentation, the approach taken here differs from previous studies, which are limited to form-function comparison of individual markers. The historical development of negation in the Transeurasian languages is argued to involve a grammaticalization pathway whereby a. |
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Notas: | "This collection of articles deals with structural typology and discourse semantics of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia. The articles from the Neo-LENCA IV workshop which took place Aug. 28, 2012-Sept. 1, 2012 at Stockholm University as a part of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) (LENCA = (Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia)." |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027269362 902726936X |
ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |