Ten Lectures on Field Semantics and Semantic Typology: 14 (Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics, 14) - Hardcover

Book 28 of 30: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics

Jürgen Bohnemeyer

 
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Synopsis

These lectures provide one of the first comprehensive introductions to semantic typology, the study of crosslinguistic variation in how languages represent reality. In addition, they survey research methods for field semantics, the study of linguistic meaning under fieldwork conditions.

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About the Author

Jürgen Bohnemeyer (Ph.D., Tilburg University, 1998; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 1998-2003) currently holds the rank of Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of The grammar of time reference in Yukatek Maya (2002).

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