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Motion, Direction and Location in Languages
In honor of Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Editors
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 concerning motional, directional and locational predicates, complements, morphology, adpositions and other phenomena. This collection of articles suitably complements courses on comparative and diachronic linguistics, semantics, syntax, typology, or field methods.
[Typological Studies in Language, 56] 2003. xvi, 305 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011
Published online on 3 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Dedication | pp. vii–viii
- Editors’ Introduction | pp. ix–xvi
- Zygmunt Frajzyngier * April 3, 1938Erin Shay | pp. 1–4
- Zygmunt Frajzyngier’s contributions to the study of language structureUwe Seibert | pp. 5–18
- The myth of doubly governing prepositions in GermanWerner Abraham | pp. 19–38
- Localisation et mouvement dans le syntagme verbal du groupe tchadique centralVéronique de Colombel | pp. 39–50
- Left, right, and the cardinal directions: Some thoughts on consistency and usageBernard Comrie | pp. 51–58
- Location and direction in KlamathScott DeLancey | pp. 59–90
- Locatives as core constituentsGerrit J. Dimmendaal | pp. 91–109
- ‘Come’and ‘go’ as discourse connectors in Kera and other Chadic languagesKaren H. Ebert | pp. 111–122
- Altrilocality in Tangale and Tuareg: A common heritage feature?Herrmann Jungraithmayr | pp. 123–128
- Location and motion in !Xun (Namibia)Christa König and Bernd Heine | pp. 129–150
- Directionality and displaced directionality in ToqabaqitaFrank Lichtenberk | pp. 151–175
- Motion, direction and spatial configuration: A lexical semantic study of ‘hang’ verbs in MandarinMei-chun Liu | pp. 177–187
- Coding location, motion and direction in Old Babylonian AkkadianAdrian Măcelaru | pp. 189–210
- Motion events in ChantyalMichael Noonan | pp. 211–234
- Locative prepositions in Chadic: Lexical or grammatical morphemesNina Pawlak | pp. 235–254
- Two Lakhota locatives and the role of introspection in linguistic analysisDavid S. Rood | pp. 255–258
- Directional verbs in JapaneseMasayoshi Shibatani | pp. 259–286
- L’encodage de la localisation, de la direction et du mouvement dans les langues << Kotoko >> du CamerounHenry Tourneux | pp. 287–297
- Index | pp. 299–303
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