Grammars of space explorations in cognitive diversity

In this pioneering collection, a team of leading linguists and psychologists look at how the spatial domain is structured in language. Drawing on data from a wide range of languages, they uncover considerable cross-linguistic variation across this central domain, adding to debates about the innate f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Levinson, Stephen C. (-), Wilkins, David (David P.)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2006.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Language, culture, and cognition ; 6.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39680812*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The background to the study of the language of space / Stephen C. Levinson and David P. WIlkins
  • Towards an Arrente grammar of space / David P. Wilkins
  • Sketch of a Jaminjung grammar of space / Eva Schultze-Berndt
  • Prolegomenon to a Warrwa grammar of space / William B. McGregor
  • The language of space in Yélî Dnye / Stephen C. Levinson
  • Prolegomena to a Kilivila grammar of space / Gunter Senft
  • A sketch of the grammar of space in Tzeltal / Penelope Brown
  • Spatial reference in Yukatek Maya : a survey / Jürgen Bohnemeyer and Christel Stolz
  • Approaching space in Tiriyó grammar / Sérgio Meira
  • Elements of the grammar of space in Ewe / Felix K. Ameka and James Essegbey
  • Spatial language in Tamil / Eric Pederson
  • A grammar of space in Japanese / Sotaro Kita
  • Some properties of spatial description in Dutch / Miriam van Staden, Melissa Bowerman and Mariet Verhelst
  • Patterns in the data : towards a semantic typology of spatial description / Stephen C. Levinson and David P. Wilkins.