TY - BOOK
T1 - Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
AU - Levinson, Stephen C.
AU - Cutfield, Sarah
AU - Dunn, Michael J.
AU - Enfield, N. J.
AU - Meira, Sérgio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Cambridge University Press 2018.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-linguistic comparisons and generalizations can be made, and how this might challenge current theory in linguistics, psychology, anthropology and philosophy. Using a shared experimental task, rounded out with studies of natural language use, specialists in each of the languages undertook extensive fieldwork for this comparative study of semantics and usage. An introduction summarizes the shared patterns and divergences in meaning and use that emerge.
AB - Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-linguistic comparisons and generalizations can be made, and how this might challenge current theory in linguistics, psychology, anthropology and philosophy. Using a shared experimental task, rounded out with studies of natural language use, specialists in each of the languages undertook extensive fieldwork for this comparative study of semantics and usage. An introduction summarizes the shared patterns and divergences in meaning and use that emerge.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138325954&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/9781108333818
DO - 10.1017/9781108333818
M3 - Book
SN - 9781108424288
BT - Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
PB - Cambridge University Press
ER -