05237nam 2200757 a 450 991081789590332120200520144314.01-282-19401-197866121940163-11-019764-210.1515/9783110197648(CKB)1000000000689107(EBL)325607(OCoLC)290492702(SSID)ssj0000214529(PQKBManifestationID)11166422(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214529(PQKBWorkID)10157466(PQKB)11608424(MiAaPQ)EBC325607(DE-B1597)32235(OCoLC)853251179(OCoLC)948655876(DE-B1597)9783110197648(Au-PeEL)EBL325607(CaPaEBR)ebr10197246(CaONFJC)MIL219401(EXLCZ)99100000000068910720060927d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn comitatives and related categories a typological study with special focus on the languages of Europe /by Thomas Stolz, Cornelia Stroh, Aina Urdze1st ed.Berlin ;New York Mouton de Gruyterc20061 online resource (568 p.)Emprical approaches to language typology ;33Description based upon print version of record.3-11-018587-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [508]-535) and indexes. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part A The long and winding road leading from intuition via problems to comitatives -- Part B What happens when a universal blows up? Metaphor, syncretism, markedness -- Part C Europe: A continent where many things appear to be the same but turn out to be different under the looking-glass -- Part D Something better change! Origins, life-cycle, contacts: The dynamics of comitatives -- BackmatterThis is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. Three types of languages are identified according to the morphological treatment of the comitative and its syncretistic association with other concepts. It is shown that the structural behaviour of comitatives is areally biassed and that the languages of Europe tend to diverge from the majority of the world's languages. This has important repercussions for a language-independent definition of the comitative. The supposed conceptual closeness of comitative and instrumental is discussed in some detail and a semantic map of the comitative is put forward. Markedness is the crucial concept for the evaluation of the relation that ties comitatives and instrumentals to each other. In a separate chapter, the diachrony of comitatives is looked into from the perspective of grammaticalisation research. Throughout the book, the argumentation is richly documented by empirical data. The book contains three case-studies of the comitative in Icelandic, Latvian and Maltese - each of which represents one of the three language types identified earlier in the text. For the purpose of comparing the languages of Europe, a chapter is devoted to the analysis of a large parallel literary corpus (covering 64 languages) which reveals that the parameters of genetic affiliation, areal location and typological classification interact in intricate ways when it comes to predicting whether or not two languages of the sample behave similarly as to the use to which they put their comitative morphemes. With a view to determining the degree of similarity between the languages of the European sub-sample, methods of quantitative typology are employed. General linguists with an interest in case, functional typologists, grammaticalisation researchers and experts of markedness issues will value this book as an important contribution to their respective fields of interest. We regret that, due to a PDF problem, the figure on page 111 is partly shown in black. Please find the correct table here. Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]Grammar, Comparative and generalCaseGrammar, Comparative and generalGrammaticalizationMarkedness (Linguistics)Typology (Linguistics)EuropeLanguagesGrammar, Comparative and generalCase.Grammar, Comparative and generalGrammaticalization.Markedness (Linguistics)Typology (Linguistics)415/.5ES 460rvkStolz Thomas620679Stroh Cornelia1618729Urdze Aina1618730MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817895903321On comitatives and related categories3950619UNINA