In:Space in Languages: Linguistic Systems and Cognitive Categories
Edited by Maya Hickmann † and Stéphane Robert
[Typological Studies in Language 66] 2006
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 16 May 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.66.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.66.toc
Table of contents
Introduction: Space, language, and cognition: Some new challenges
Part I — Typology of linguistics systems: Universals, variability, and change
Encoding the distinction between location, source, and destination: A typological study
The expression of static location in a typological perspective
What makes manner of motion salient? Explorations in linguistic typology, discourse, and cognition
The semantic structure of motion verbs in French: Typological perspectives
From personal deixis to spatial deixis: The semantic evolution of demonstratives from Latin to French
Motion events in Chinese: A diachronic study of directional complements
Part II — The nature and uses of space in language and discourse
Are there spatial prepositions?
Deitic space in Wolof: Discourse, syntax and the importance of absence
The semantics of motion verbs: Action, space, and qualia
The representation of spatial structure in spoken and signed language
Iconicity and space in French sign language
Part III — Space, language, and cognition
On the very idea of a frame of reference
The relativity of motion in first language acquisition
Spatial language and spatial representation: Autonomy and interaction
Deficits in spatial discourse of Alzheimer patients
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