The Crosslinguistics of Zero-Marking of Spatial Relations

ISBN-13: 9783050062761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 421 str.

Thomas Stolz; Sander Lestrade; Christel Stolz

Opis

On the basis of a world-wide convenience sample of 116 languages, the distribution of zero-marking of spatial relations over the languages of the world is shown to largely escape any genetically, areally and/or typologically based constraints. The main goal of this book is to firmly establish the cross-linguistic occurrence of the zero-marking of spatial relations and to provide a framework for its study in terms of economy and predictability.

O autorze

Thomas Stolz, University of Bremen; Sander Lestrade, Radboud University Nijmegen; Christel Stolz, University of Bremen.