02910nam 2200505 450 991082245030332120180307101857.0(CKB)3710000001386325(MiAaPQ)EBC4875188(DLC) 2017021564(EXLCZ)99371000000138632520170707h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSimilative and equative constructions a cross-linguistic perspective /edited by Yvonne Treis, Martine VanhoveAmsterdam, [Netherlands] ;Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] :John Benjamins Publishing Company,2017.©20171 online resource (438 pages) illustrations (some color)Typological Studies in Language,0167-7373 ;Volume 11790-272-0698-8 90-272-6597-6 Includes bibliographical references and indexes."While comparative constructions have been extensively studied in the past decades, the expression of equality and similarity has so far attracted little attention in the typological literature. The fifteen contributions assembled in this volume study similative and equative constructions in typologically and genetically distant languages, albeit with a focus on Africa, and from a range of perspectives. Purely synchronically oriented case studies are supplemented by contributions that also shed light on the diachronic development of similative and equative constructions in language contact situations. Sources of similative morphemes and lexically expressed concepts of likeness are examined, and little-known multifunctionality patterns and grammaticalisation targets of similative morphemes - such as purpose clause markers, modality morphemes and markers of glottonyms - are discussed. Based on a sample of 119 languages worldwide, a new typology of equative constructions is proposed. The book should be of interest to typologists, semanticists, specialists of grammaticalization, historical linguistics and syntax."Typological studies in language ;Volume 117.Grammar, Comparative and generalCoordinate constructionsGrammar, Comparative and generalGrammaticalizationContrastive linguisticsTypology (Linguistics)Grammar, Comparative and generalCoordinate constructions.Grammar, Comparative and generalGrammaticalization.Contrastive linguistics.Typology (Linguistics)415Treis YvonneVanhove MartineMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822450303321Similative and equative constructions4049838UNINA