On comitatives and related categories : a typological study with special focus on the languages of Europe /

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Author / Creator:	Stolz, Thomas.
Imprint:	Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 551 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Empirical approaches to language typology, 0933-761X ; 33 Empirical approaches to language typology ; 33.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Case. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization. Markedness (Linguistics) Typology (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Case. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization. Language and languages. Markedness (Linguistics) Typology (Linguistics) Europe -- Languages. Europe. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11184460

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Other authors / contributors:	Stroh, Cornelia. Urdze, Aina.
ISBN:	3110197642 9783110197648 9783110185874 3110185873
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 508-535) and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. General linguists with an interest in case, functional typologists, grammaticalisation researchers and experts of markedness issues will value this book as an important contribution to their respective fields of interest.
Other form:	Print version: Stolz, Thomas. On comitatives and related categories. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006
Standard no.:	2489215

Table of Contents:

pt. A. The long and winding road leading from intuition via problems to comitatives
1. Introduction
2. Some problems with form and function
3. Goals
4. Categories, definitions and terminology
5. Methodology and theory
6. Corpus/sample
7. Structure
pt. B. What happens when a universal blows up? : metaphor, syncretism, markedness
8. The companion-metaphor
9. Syncretism
10. Systematicity of interaction
pt. C. Europe : a continent where many things appear to be the same but turn out to be different under the looking-glass
11. A corpus-based analysis
12. Case studies
pt. D. Something better change! Origins, life-cycle, contacts : the dynamics of comitatives
13. Grammaticalisation
14. Contact
15. This is the end.

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