On Comitatives and Related Categories : : A Typological Study with Special Focus on the Languages of Europe / / Thomas Stolz, Cornelia Stroh, Aina Urdze.
This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general lingui...
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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 Mouton, , [2008] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (551 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Part A The long and winding road leading from
- intuition via problems to comitatives
- Part B What happens when a universal blows up?
- Metaphor, syncretism, markedness
- Part C Europe: A continent where many things appear
- to be the same but turn out to be different under the
- looking-glass
- Part D Something better change! Origins,
- life-cycle, contacts: The dynamics of comitatives
- Backmatter