Demonstratives in cross-linguistic perspective:

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...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Levinson, Stephen C. 1947- (HerausgeberIn), Cutfield, Sarah ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn), Dunn, Michael 1969- (HerausgeberIn), Enfield, N. J. 1966- (HerausgeberIn), Meira, Sérgio 1968- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:Language, culture, and cognition 14
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333818
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333818
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333818
Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jul 2018)
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 387 Seiten)
ISBN:9781108333818
DOI:10.1017/9781108333818