Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Levinson, Stephen C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-linguistic comparisons and generalizations can be made, and how this might challenge current theory in linguistics, psychology, anthropology and philosophy. Using a shared experimental task, rounded out with studies of natural language use, specialists in each of the languages undertook extensive fieldwork for this comparative study of semantics and usage. An introduction summarizes the shared patterns and divergences in meaning and use that emerge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108341370
• Artikelnr.: 54116249

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: demonstratives
patterns in diversity Stephen C. Levinson; 1. The demonstrative questionnaire: 'this' and 'that' in comparative perspective David P. Wilkins; 2. Lao demonstrative determiners nii4 and nan4
An intentionally discrete distinction for extensionally analogue space Nick Enfield; 3. Dalabon exophoric uses of demonstratives Sarah Cutfield; 4. Brazilian Portuguese
non
contrastive exophoric use of demonstratives in the spoken language Sergio Meira and Raquel Guirardello
Damian; 5. 'See this sitting one'
demonstratives and deictic classifiers in Goemai Birgit Hellwig; 6. Tzeltal
the demonstrative system Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson; 7. Yucatec demonstratives in interaction: spontaneous vs. elicited data Jürgen Bohnemeyer; 8. Lavukaleve
exophoric usage of demonstratives Angela Terrill; 9. Tiriyó
non
contrastive exophoric uses of demonstratives Sergio Meira; 10. Trumai
non
contrastive exophoric uses of demonstratives Raquel Guirardello
Damian; 11. Saliba
Exophoric demonstratives Anna Margetts; 12. Warao demonstratives Stefanie Herrmann; 13. Chukchi
non
contrastive spatial demonstrative usage Michael Dunn; 14. Yélî Dnye
demonstratives in the language of Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea Stephen C. Levinson; 15. Tidore
non
contrastive demonstratives Miriam van Staden; 16. The Jahai multi
term demonstrative system
what's spatial about it? Niclas Burenhult.