The Crosslinguistics of Zero-Marking of Spatial Relations / / Christel Stolz, Thomas Stolz, Sander Lestrade.

On the basis of a world-wide convenience sample of 116 languages, the distribution of zero-marking of spatial relations over the languages of the world is shown to largely escape any genetically, areally and/or typologically based constraints. The main goal of this book is to firmly establish the cr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter (A), , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 15
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Physical Description:1 online resource (405 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Part A. Introduction and theoretical framework
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Foundations
  • Part B. The empirical side of zero-marking of spatial relations
  • 3. Cross-linguistic objets trouvés
  • 4. Case studies
  • Part C. Insights and outlook
  • 5. Evaluation
  • 6. The end is near…
  • Appendix