32.2573, Books: Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European: Keydana, Hock, Widmer (eds.)

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Subject: 32.2573, Books: Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European: Keydana, Hock, Widmer (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2021 14:50:21
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European: Keydana, Hock, Widmer (eds.)

 


Title: Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European 
Series Title: The Mouton Handbooks of Indo-European Typology  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110641325/html 


Editor: Götz Keydana
Editor: Wolfgang Hock
Editor: Paul Widmer

Electronic: ISBN: 3110641325 9783110641325 Pages: 597 Price: Europe EURO 239.00
Hardback: ISBN: 3110537666 9783110537666 Pages: 597 Price: Europe EURO 239.00


Abstract:

The ability to compare is fundamental to human cognition. Expressing various
types of comparison is thus essential to any language. The present volume
presents detailed grammatical descriptions of how comparison and gradation are
expressed in ancient Indo-European languages. The detailed chapters devoted to
the individual languages go far beyond standard handbook knowledge. Each
chapter is structured the same way to facilitate cross-reference and
(typological) comparison. The data are presented in a top-down fashion and in
a format easily accessible to the linguistic community.

The topics covered are similatives, equatives, comparatives, superlatives,
elatives, and excessives. Each type of comparison is illustrated with glossed
examples of all its attested grammatical realizations.

The book is an indispensable tool for typologists, historical linguists, and
students of the syntax and morphosyntax of comparison.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Indo-European


Written In: English  (eng)

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