Motion, direction and location in languages : in honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier / edited by Erin Shay, Uwe Seibert.

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TextLanguage: English, French Series: Typological studies in language ; v. 56.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 303 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

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9789027275219
9027275211
9781588114426
1588114422
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Motion, Direction and Location in Languages; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; DEDICATION; EDITORS' INTRODUCTION; Zygmunt Frajzyngier *April 3, 1938; ZYGMUNT FRAJZYNGIER'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE STRUCTURE; THE MYTH OF DOUBLY GOVERNING PREPOSITIONS IN GERMAN; LOCALISATION ET MOUVEMENT DANS LE SYNTAGME VERBAL DU GROUPE TCHADIQUE CENTRAL; LEFT, RIGHT, AND THE CARDINAL DIRECTIONS SOME THOUGHTS ON CONSISTENCY AND USAGE; LOCATION AND DIRECTION IN KLAMATH; LOCATIVES AS CORE CONSTITUENTS.

'Come' and 'go' as discourse connectors in kera and other chadic languagesaltrilocality in tangaleand tuareg: a common heritage feature?; location and motion in!xun (namibia); directionality and displaced directionality in toqabaqita; motion, direction and spatial configuration: a lexical semantic study of'hang' verbs in mandarin; coding location, motion and direction in old babylonian akkadian; motionevents in chantyal; locative prepositions in chadic: lexical or grammatical morphemes; two lakhota locatives and the role of introspection in linguistic analysis; directional verbs in japanese.

L'ENCODAGE DE LA LOCALISATION, DE LA DIRECTION ET DU MOUVEMENT DANS LESLANGUES KOTOKO DU CAMEROUNIndex.

Summary: This book contributes to an area of study that is of interest to linguists of all backgrounds. Typological in nature this volume presents data analysis from the major language families of Africa as well as Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Japanese, Indo-European, Siouan and Penutian. The 16 contributors to the volume share a commitment to examining the language phenomena pertaining to the volume's theme with a fresh eye. While most of the papers make reference to existing theoretical frameworks, each also makes a novel and sometimes surprising contribution to the body of knowledge and theory concer.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Zygmunt Frajzyngier's contributions to the study of language structure"-Page 5-18.

Two articles in French.

L'ENCODAGE DE LA LOCALISATION, DE LA DIRECTION ET DU MOUVEMENT DANS LESLANGUES KOTOKO DU CAMEROUNIndex.

This book contributes to an area of study that is of interest to linguists of all backgrounds. Typological in nature this volume presents data analysis from the major language families of Africa as well as Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Japanese, Indo-European, Siouan and Penutian. The 16 contributors to the volume share a commitment to examining the language phenomena pertaining to the volume's theme with a fresh eye. While most of the papers make reference to existing theoretical frameworks, each also makes a novel and sometimes surprising contribution to the body of knowledge and theory concer.

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