Motion, Direction and Location in Languages: In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier: 56 (Typological Studies in Language) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027229643 ISBN 13: 9789027229649

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2003

Synopsis

This book contributes to an area of study that is of interest to linguists of all backgrounds. Typological in nature this volume presents data analysis from the major language families of Africa as well as Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Japanese, Indo-European, Siouan and Penutian. The 16 contributors to the volume share a commitment to examining the language phenomena pertaining to the volume’s theme with a fresh eye. While most of the papers make reference to existing theoretical frameworks, each also makes a novel and sometimes surprising contribution to the body of knowledge and theory concerning motional, directional and locational predicates, complements, morphology, adpositions and other phenomena. This collection of articles suitably complements courses on comparative and diachronic linguistics, semantics, syntax, typology, or field methods.

About this title

Synopsis

This volume is functionally and typologically oriented, covering specific topics in language by collecting together data from a wide variety of languages and language typologies. The orientation of the volume is substantive rather than formal, with the aim of investigating universals of human language via as broadly defined a database as possible, leaning toward cross-linguistic, diachronic, developmental and live-discourse data.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027229643
• ISBN 13: 9789027229649
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 319
• Editor: Shay Erin, Seibert Uwe