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Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Hardcover

Series: Language Culture and Cognition, Book 14

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 1108424287
ISBN13: 9781108424288
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 19 2018
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.72
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-linguistic comparisons and generalizations can be made, and how this might challenge current theory in linguistics, psychology, anthropology and philosophy. Using a shared experimental task, rounded out with studies of natural language use, specialists in each of the languages undertook extensive fieldwork for this comparative study of semantics and usage. An introduction summarizes the shared patterns and divergences in meaning and use that emerge.

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