Locative Predications in Chadic Languages
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Locative Predications in Chadic Languages: Implications for Semantic Analysis(Routledge Research in Legal History)

Locative Predications in Chadic Languages: Implications for Semantic Analysis(Routledge Research in Legal History)


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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.

Table of Contents:
1: Introduction 2: Fundamentals of the current approach 3: The locative domain in Mina 4: The locative domain in Hausa 5: The locative domain in Pero 6: The locative domain in Lele 7: The locative domain in Hdi 8: The locative domain in Mupun 9: The locative domain in Wandala 10: Locative expressions in Gidar 11: Toward a typology of locative expressions in Chadic

About the Author :
Zygmunt Frajzyngier is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Colorado. His main research interests include foundations of syntax and semantics in cross-linguistic perspective, typological explanations in grammar, grammaticalization, and Chadic and Afroasiatic linguistics. His recent books include The Emergence of Functions in Language (with Marielle Butters; OUP 2020), Language Formation by Adults: The Case of Sino-Russian Idiolects (with Natalia Gurian and Sergei Karpenko; Brill 2021), and A Typology of Reference Systems (OUP 2023).


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  • ISBN-13: 9780198896210
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 240 mm
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Series Title: Routledge Research in Legal History
  • Sub Title: Implications for Semantic Analysis
  • Weight: 658 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198896212
  • Publisher Date: 05 Dec 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Sub Title: Implications for Semantic Analysis
  • Width: 164 mm


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