Space and time in languages and cultures [[electronic resource] ] : linguistic diversity / / edited by Luna Filipović, Kasia M. Jaszczolt

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (508 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Space and time in language; Language and languages - Variation; Nakh languages - Aspect; Nakh languages - Tense; Ginukh language - Grammar, Comparative - Bezhta; Bezhta language - Grammar, Comparative - Ginukh
• Altri autori: FilipovićLuna JaszczoltKatarzyna
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Representing location in space and time -- pt. 2. Space and time in language acquisition -- pt. 3. Dynamic relations in space and time domains.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume offers novel insights into linguistic diversity in the domains of spatial and temporal reference, searching for uniformity amongst diversity. A number of authors discuss expression of dynamic spatial relations cross-linguistically in a vast range of typologically different languages such as Bezhta, French, Hinuq, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Serbian, and Spanish, among others. The contributions on linguistic expression of time all shed new light on pertinent questions regarding this cognitive domain, such as the hotly debated relationship between cross-linguistic differences in talki
• Titolo autorizzato: Space and time in languages and cultures
• ISBN: 1-281-14397-9; 9786613776693; 90-272-7361-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779396203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Human cognitive processing ; ; v. 36.