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On Comitatives and Related Categories: A Typological Study with Special Focus on the Languages of Europe

By Thomas Stolz , Cornelia Stroh , Aina Urdze

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2006
ISBN
3110185873, 9783110185874
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2888784 bytes)
Series
Emprical Approaches to Language Typology 33
Pages
551\568
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. General linguists with an interest in case, functional typologists, grammaticalisation researchers and experts of markedness issues will value this book as an important contribution to their respective fields of interest.

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