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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 21:34:22
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Similative and Equative Constructions: Treis, Vanhove (eds.)

 


Title: Similative and Equative Constructions 
Subtitle: A cross-linguistic perspective 
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 117  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.117 


Editor: Yvonne Treis
Editor: Martine Vanhove

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027265975 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027265975 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027265975 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
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Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206985 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206985 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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