The grammar of space / Soteria Svorou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Svorou, Soteria.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 25.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time in language.

Psycholinguistics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space and the way it is encoded grammatically in language.The discussion of the similarities and differences among languages in the encoding and expression of spatial relations centers around the emergence and evolution of spatial grams, and the semantic and morphosyntactic characteristics of two types of spatial grams. The author bases her observations on the study of data from 26 genetically unrelated and randomly selected languages.It is

Contents:

THE GRAMMAR OF SPACE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1.The Conceptual Framework; Chapter 2. General Methodology; Chapter 3. The Evolution of Spatial Grams; Chapter 4. The Front - Back Axis; Chapter 5. Conclusion; Notes; Appendix A. The SpaceCats Sample; Appendix B. Coding Manual; Appendix C. Meaning component working definitions; Appendix D. Frequency of meaning components in the data base; Appendix E. Nominal sources of spatial grams; Bibliography; Language Index; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-31279-4

9786613312792

90-272-7657-9

OCLC:

756484596