Similative and equative constructions : a cross-linguistic perspective edited by Yvonne Treis, Martine Vanhove.

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Typological Studies in Language (TSL), 0167-7373 ; volume 117 Typological studies in language ; v. 117.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Coordinate constructions. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization. Contrastive linguistics. Typology (Linguistics) Contrastive linguistics. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Coordinate constructions. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization. Typology (Linguistics) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11705208

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Other authors / contributors:	Treis, Yvonne, editor. Vanhove, Martine, editor.
ISBN:	9789027265975 9027265976 9789027206985 9027206988
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Summary:	"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."
Other form:	Print version: Similative and equative constructions. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027206985

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Part I. Typology and grammaticalisation
3. Chapter 1. Equative constructions in world-wide perspective
4. Chapternbsp;2. Toward a cognitive typology oflike-expressions
5. Chapternbsp;3. Similarity, suitability, and non-epistemic modalities (volitionality, ability, and obligation)
6. Chapternbsp;4. Similative morphemes as purpose clause markers in Ethiopia and beyond
7. Chapternbsp;5. The deictic identification of similarity
8. Part II. Case studies from around the world
9. Chapternbsp;6. Comparison, similarity and simulation in Zaar, a Chadic language of Nigeria
10. Chapternbsp;7. Similative, equative, and comparative constructions in Beja (North-Cushitic)
11. Chapternbsp;8. Expressing comparison in Gbaya, a Ubangian language of the Central African Republic
12. Chapternbsp;9. Expressing similarity in Yulu and other Sara-Bongo-Bagirmi languages (Central Africa)
13. Chapternbsp;10. Similarity, equality and the like in North Saami
14. Chapternbsp;11. Comparative, similative, and equative constructions in Mon
15. Chapternbsp;12. Multifunctionality and polysemy of the similative marker =kanin Pesh
16. Part III. Similative constructions and language contact
17. Chapternbsp;13. Similative morphemes and their grammaticalisations in Yemsa
18. Chapternbsp;14. The morpheme L(a)ngain Xamtanga
19. Chapternbsp;15. Similarity and related functions in Libido
20. Language index
21. Name Index
22. Subject index

Similative and equative constructions : a cross-linguistic perspective edited by Yvonne Treis, Martine Vanhove.

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