LEADER 05274nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910454209203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-19401-1 010 $a9786612194016 010 $a3-11-019764-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110197648 035 $a(CKB)1000000000689107 035 $a(EBL)325607 035 $a(OCoLC)290492702 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000214529 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11166422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214529 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10157466 035 $a(PQKB)11608424 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC325607 035 $a(DE-B1597)32235 035 $a(OCoLC)853251179 035 $a(OCoLC)948655876 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110197648 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL325607 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10197246 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL219401 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000689107 100 $a20060927d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn comitatives and related categories$b[electronic resource] $ea typological study with special focus on the languages of Europe /$fby Thomas Stolz, Cornelia Stroh, Aina Urdze 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (568 p.) 225 0 $aEmprical approaches to language typology ;$v33 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-018587-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [508]-535) and indexes. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPart A The long and winding road leading from intuition via problems to comitatives -- $tPart B What happens when a universal blows up? Metaphor, syncretism, markedness -- $tPart C Europe: A continent where many things appear to be the same but turn out to be different under the looking-glass -- $tPart D Something better change! Origins, life-cycle, contacts: The dynamics of comitatives -- $t Backmatter 330 $aThis 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. 410 0$aEmpirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xCase 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xGrammaticalization 606 $aMarkedness (Linguistics) 606 $aTypology (Linguistics) 607 $aEurope$xLanguages 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xCase. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xGrammaticalization. 615 0$aMarkedness (Linguistics) 615 0$aTypology (Linguistics) 676 $a415/.5 686 $aES 460$2rvk 700 $aStolz$b Thomas$0620679 701 $aStroh$b Cornelia$01047735 701 $aUrdze$b Aina$01047736 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454209203321 996 $aOn comitatives and related categories$92475538 997 $aUNINA