The polyfunctionality of 'still' expressions - Persohn, Bastian
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Expressions from the semasiological domain of phasal polarity (¿still¿, ¿already¿, etc.) tend to be highly polyfunctional, with their various uses often extending into a wide range of other linguistic domains, both time-related and non-temporal. Yet these patterns have hitherto been investigated mostly for individual languages or smaller groups. This volume presents the first ever larger-scale survey of the numerous functions of expressions whose meanings include the notion of ¿still¿, making use of a global sample of 76 varieties from 45 distinct phyla. It is aimed at semanticists, typologists and descriptive grammarians alike.…mehr

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Expressions from the semasiological domain of phasal polarity (¿still¿, ¿already¿, etc.) tend to be highly polyfunctional, with their various uses often extending into a wide range of other linguistic domains, both time-related and non-temporal. Yet these patterns have hitherto been investigated mostly for individual languages or smaller groups. This volume presents the first ever larger-scale survey of the numerous functions of expressions whose meanings include the notion of ¿still¿, making use of a global sample of 76 varieties from 45 distinct phyla. It is aimed at semanticists, typologists and descriptive grammarians alike.
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Autorenporträt
Bastian Persohn holds a PhD in general linguistics from the University of Cologne and a postdoctoral degree in the same field from the University of Jena. His research focusses on cross-linguistic variation in the expression of tense, aspect, and adjacent semasiological domains.