From linguistic areas to areal linguistics / / edited by Pieter Muysken

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 409
• Soggetto topico: Areal linguistics
• Altri autori: MuyskenPieter
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The problem of the Caucasian Sprachbund / Viacheslav A. Chirikba -- East Nusantara as a linguistic area / Marian Klamer, Ger Reesink, and Miriam van Staden -- The Guapore-Mamore region as a linguistic area / Mily Crevels and Hein van der Voort -- An integrated areal-typological approach / Olga Mieska Tomic -- Zhuang / Rint Sybesma.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: From linguistic areas to areal linguistics
• ISBN: 1-282-15203-3; 9786612152030; 90-272-9136-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821538403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language companion series ; ; v. 90.