Here ¿ Hither ¿ Hence and Related Categories : A Cross-linguistic Study

Julia Nintemann

ISBN 10: 3110672448 / ISBN 13: 9783110672442

Editore: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - As a follow-up study to the global comparison of spatial interrogatives (Studia Typologica 20), the present book examines the spatial declarative counterparts which are provided by the expression class of spatial deictic adverbs. In a functionally motivated typological approach, equivalents of Early Modern English here - hither - hence and there - thither - thence are identified across a sample of 250 languages from all macro-areas. These are also quantitatively assessed to extrapolate areal and global trends of coding patterns. The formal relationships between spatial interrogative and spatial declarative paradigms are analyzed with a focus on the syncretism of categories and of individual cells. Qualitative discussions of patterns precede in-depth treatments of problematic cases and other relevant issues related to the research topic.The quantitative results strongly point to areal linguistic trends concerning the distribution of distinct and non-distinct coding of the three spatial relations Place, Goal, and Source. Additional aspects such as quantitative evaluations of constructional complexity are addressed subsequently.

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• Titolo: Here ¿ Hither ¿ Hence and Related Categories : A Cross-linguistic Study
• Editore: De Gruyter Mouton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3110672448
• ISBN 13: 9783110672442
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 236 L x 160 A x 36 P (millimetri) 236 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 36 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 988 grammi

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Riassunto

As a follow-up study to the global comparison of spatial interrogatives (Studia Typologica 20), the present book examines the spatial declarative counterparts which are provided by the expression class of spatial deictic adverbs. In a functionally motivated typological approach, equivalents of Early Modern English here – hither – hence and there – thither – thence are identified across a sample of 250 languages from all macro-areas. These are also quantitatively assessed to extrapolate areal and global trends of coding patterns. The formal relationships between spatial interrogative and spatial declarative paradigms are analyzed with a focus on the syncretism of categories and of individual cells. Qualitative discussions of patterns precede in-depth treatments of problematic cases and other relevant issues related to the research topic.
The quantitative results strongly point to areal linguistic trends concerning the distribution of distinct and non-distinct coding of the three spatial relations Place, Goal, and Source. Additional aspects such as quantitative evaluations of constructional complexity are addressed subsequently.

Informazioni sull?autore

Julia Nintemann, Bremen University, Germany; Maja Robbers, Bremen University, Germany; Nicole Hober, Bremen University, Germany.