From linguistic areas to areal linguistics / edited by Pieter Muysken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muysken, Pieter.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 90.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 90

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Areal linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper deals with an areal feature shared by languages spoken in Indo-China and Southern China, namely, the presence of a modal element in a for these languages a-typical post-verbal position. In this paper we investigate the properties of this element in Cantonese, Lao, Vietnamese and Zhuang. One of the questions we focus on is the fact that the element in question can be translated with 'can', but the languages differ in that only in a subset of them, it can mean 'can-ability'. It turns out that the interpretational properties of the element is tightly interrelated with both syntactic and interpretational properties of the resultative construction.

Contents:

The problem of the Caucasian Sprachbund / Viacheslav A. Chirikba

East Nusantara as a linguistic area / Marian Klamer, Ger Reesink, and Miriam van Staden

The Guapore-Mamore region as a linguistic area / Mily Crevels and Hein van der Voort

An integrated areal-typological approach / Olga Mieska Tomic

Zhuang / Rint Sybesma.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612152030

9781282152038

1282152033

9789027291363

9027291365

OCLC:

648344504