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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Human cognitive processing ;
v. 36. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Space and Time in Languages and Cultures. Linguistic diversity; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Editors and contributors; 1. Preliminary remarks; 2. The contributions to this volume; 3. Perspectives for future research; References; I. Representing location in space and time; 1. Spatial relations in Hinuq and Bezhta; 1. Introduction; 2. Spatial cases and postpositions; 3. Spatial cases and semantic typology of spatial relations; 4. Temporal usages of the spatial cases; 5. Conclusions; References; 2. Pragmatically disambiguating space; 1. Introduction.
- 2. Frames of reference: The linguistic structure of Space3. Underdetermined semantics; 4. Pragmatically disambiguating Space; 5. Experimental data; 6. Cross-linguistic evidence; 7. Conclusion; References; 1. Introduction; 2. The English progressive; 3. The perfect; 4. The perfect progressive; 5. Conclusion; References; 1. Introduction; 3. Event decomposition; 4. Conclusion; References; 5. Cross-linguistic differences in expressing time and universal principles of utterance; 1. Time concept and time talk; 2. Expressing temporality: Lexicon, grammar, and pragmatics; 3. Pragmatic universals?
- 4. A contextualist approach to expressing temporal distinctions5. Sources of temporal information; 6. Covert and overt devices and the question of compositionality; 7. Representing the diversity; 8. Concluding remarks: The depth of diversity; References; 1. Introduction; 2. Strong and weak determiners; 3. Presupposition projection versus quantifier restriction; 4. The interaction of aspectual adverbs with temporal adverbs; 5. Aspectual adverbs in interrogative dialogue; 6. Conclusions; References; 1. Introduction; 2. Dimensions of discourse under scrutiny.
- 3. Elicitation material, informants, methodology4. Quantitative results; 5. Qualitative results; 6. General discussion; References; 1. Space, time, and tense; 3. Tense in Middle High German (1050-1350); 4. Consequences: Tense, text genre, and orality; Primary sources; References; II. Space and time in language acquisition; 1. Introduction; 2. Temporality; 3. Second language acquisition of tense-aspect morphology; 4. The study; 5. Conclusion; References; 1. Introduction; 2. Motion events in language and cognition; 3. Study 1; 4. Study 2; 5. General discussion; 6. Conclusion; References.
- 1. Introduction3. Motion in English and Serbian; 5. Methodology and research hypotheses; 6. Talking about Manner and Path of motion in an L2; 7. Summary and conclusions; References; Appendix; 1. Spatial representations across languages and learner types; 2. Expressing motion events in English and French; 3. Methodology; 4. Results; 5. Discussion; References; 13. Spatial prepositions in Italian L2: Universal and language-specific principles; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical background; 3. Corpora and method; 4. Data analysis; 5. source vulnerability; 6. General discussion; References.