02720nam 2200577 a 450 991082153840332120240513080323.01-282-15203-3978661215203090-272-9136-5(CKB)1000000000535006(OCoLC)648344504(CaPaEBR)ebrary10212581(SSID)ssj0000158841(PQKBManifestationID)11946927(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158841(PQKBWorkID)10146677(PQKB)10764945(MiAaPQ)EBC622582(Au-PeEL)EBL622582(CaPaEBR)ebr10212581(CaONFJC)MIL215203(EXLCZ)99100000000053500620070817d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFrom linguistic areas to areal linguistics /edited by Pieter Muysken1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.c20081 online resource (304 p.) Studies in language companion series,0165-7763 ;v. 90Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph90-272-3100-1 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.The problem of the Caucasian Sprachbund / Viacheslav A. Chirikba -- East Nusantara as a linguistic area / Marian Klamer, Ger Reesink, and Miriam van Staden -- The Guaporé-Mamoré region as a linguistic area / Mily Crevels and Hein van der Voort -- An integrated areal-typological approach / Olga Mieska Tomic -- Zhuang / Rint Sybesma.This paper deals with an areal feature shared by languages spoken in Indo-China and Southern China, namely, the presence of a modal element in a for these languages a-typical post-verbal position. In this paper we investigate the properties of this element in Cantonese, Lao, Vietnamese and Zhuang. One of the questions we focus on is the fact that the element in question can be translated with 'can', but the languages differ in that only in a subset of them, it can mean 'can-ability'. It turns out that the interpretational properties of the element is tightly interrelated with both syntactic and interpretational properties of the resultative construction.Studies in language companion series ;v. 90.Areal linguisticsAreal linguistics.409Muysken Pieter152040MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821538403321From linguistic areas to areal linguistics4105437UNINA