Name: Here Hither Hence and Related Categories a Cross-Linguistic Study
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Author: Nintemann Julia Maja Robbers Und Nicole Hober:
ISBN: 9783110672442

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton,

Author

Nintemann Julia Maja Robbers Und Nicole Hober:

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9783110672442

Here Hither Hence and Related Categories a Cross-Linguistic Study

Nintemann Julia Maja Robbers Und Nicole Hober: (Author) · De Gruyter Mouton, · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Here Hither Hence and Related Categories a Cross-Linguistic Study"

As a follow-up study to the global comparison of spatial interrogatives (Studia Typologica 20), the present book examines the spatial declarative counterparts which are provided by the expression class of spatial deictic adverbs. In a functionally motivated typological approach, equivalents of Early Modern English here - hither - hence and there - thither - thence are identified across a sample of 250 languages from all macro-areas. These are also quantitatively assessed to extrapolate areal and global trends of coding patterns. The formal relationships between spatial interrogative and spatial declarative paradigms are analyzed with a focus on the syncretism of categories and of individual cells. Qualitative discussions of patterns precede in-depth treatments of problematic cases and other relevant issues related to the research topic.The quantitative results strongly point to areal linguistic trends concerning the distribution of distinct and non-distinct coding of the three spatial relations Place, Goal, and Source. Additional aspects such as quantitative evaluations of constructional complexity are addressed subsequently.