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Title Space in diachrony / edited by Silvia Luraghi, Tatiana Nikitina and Chiara Zanchi.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; volume 188
Studies in language companion series ; v. 188.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Space in Diachrony; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Abbreviations; Space in Diachrony; An introduction; Silvia Luraghi1, Tatiana Nikitina2 & Chiara Zanchi1; The goal-over-source principle in European languages; Preliminary results from a parallel corpus study; Annemarie Verkerk; Overlaps in spatial encodings; Evidence from the Indo-European translations of the New Testament; Olga A. Thomason & Hanne M. Eckhoff; Ablative and allative marking of static locations; A historical perspective; Tatiana Nikitina; How should a "classical" Satellite-Framed Language behave?
Path encoding asymmetries in Ancient Greek and LatinClaudio Iacobini, Luisa Corona, Noemi De Pasquale, & Alfonsina Buoniconto; Differential Goal marking vs. differential Source marking in Ancient Greek; Silvia Luraghi; New evidence for Source-Goal asymmetry; Ancient Greek preverbs; Chiara Zanchi; A diachronic take on the Source-Goal asymmetry; Evidence from inner Asia Minor Greek; Thanasis Georga kopoulos & Petros Karatsareas; Asymmetries in path encoding in Sicilian; A diachronic overview; Luisa Brucale & Egle Mocciaro; Source-oriented and goal-oriented events in old and Modern French.
Anetta KopeckaSource-Location ambiguity and incipient decline in the recent evolution of the English directional particle away; Diana M. Lewis; Prepositional phrase vs. bare instrumental; The trajectory of motion in Russian; Natalia Philippova; Space in Diachrony; 1. Asymmetries in the space domain; 2. Asymmetries between sources and goals; 3. Differential marking of spatial relations; 4. Overview of the book; References; The goal-over-source principle in European languages; 1. Introduction; 2. The goal-over-source principle in path encoding; 3. The current study: Data collection and coding.
4. Results5. Why do these translations display a goal bias?; 5.1 Dependencies between path encoding measures; 5.2 Goals are added to translations to avoid ambiguity; 6. Why do some translations display a larger goal bias than others?; 6.1 Talmian typology does not explain cross-linguistic differences; 6.2 Language history does not explain cross-linguistic differences; 6.3 Geographic distance does not explain cross-linguistic differences; 6.4 Further explanations for cross-linguistic variation; 7. Conclusion: The encoding of source, trajectory and goal in Indo-European; Acknowledgments.
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Subject Space and time in language.
Space and time in language.
Cognitive grammar.
Cognitive grammar.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Luraghi, Silvia, 1958- editor.
Nikitina, Tatiana, editor.
Zanchi, Chiara, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Space in diachrony. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027259530 (DLC) 2017018295
ISBN 9789027265197 (pdf)
9027265194 (pdf)
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