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Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Science ISBN: 9783110672442 Publication Name: Here-Hither-Hence and Related Categories : a Cross-Linguistic Study Item Width: 6.1 in Type: Textbook Item Weight: 33.3 Oz Item Height: 0.6 in Number of Pages: 568 Pages Book Title: Here - Hither - Hence and Related Categories : A Cross-linguistic Publication Year: 2020 Author: Nicole Hober, Maja Robbers, Julia Nintemann height: 0.6 in Subject: General, Linguistics / General Language: English Publisher: DE Gruyter, Inc. Item Length: 9.1 in Format: Hardcover width: 6.1 in Series: Studia Typologica [Sttyp] Ser.

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Here - Hither - Hence and Related Categories : A Cross-linguistic Study, Hard.... Here - Hither - Hence and Related Categories : A Cross-linguistic Study, Hardcover by Nintemann, Julia; Robbers, Maja; Hober, Nicole, ISBN 3110672448, ISBN-13 9783110672442, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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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