36.1255, Books: Locative Predications in Chadic Languages: Frajzyngier (2025)

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Subject: 36.1255, Books: Locative Predications in Chadic Languages: Frajzyngier (2025)

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Date: 15-Apr-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Locative Predications in Chadic Languages: Frajzyngier (2025)


Title: Locative Predications in Chadic Languages
Subtitle: Implications for Semantic Analysis
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Oxford University Press
           http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/locative-predications-in-chadic-languages-9780198896210?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Author(s): Zygmunt Frajzyngier

Hardcover

Abstract:

This book demonstrates that the grammatical systems of individual
languages encode unique semantic structures. Zygmunt Frajzyngier
examines these semantic structures with particular reference to how
languages convey information about the location of an entity or an
event and the movements of an entity in space, drawing on data from
eight typologically distinct languages that belong to three branches
of the Chadic family. These languages were chosen because some display
locative expressions with semantic and syntactic characteristics that
have not been observed or described in other languages, most
importantly in the coding of what Frajzyngier calls 'the locative
domain' in the grammatical system. The volume shows that utterances in
a given language are determined by the functions encoded in the
grammatical system and by where those functions are encoded; it
further shows that syntactic properties and the existence of some
lexical items in the language are also determined by those same
functions.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Chadic




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