The Crosslinguistics of Zero-Marking of Spatial Relations

On the basis of a world-wide convenience sample of 116 languages, the distribution of zero-marking of spatial relations over the languages of the world is shown to largely escape any genetically, areally and/or typologically based constraints. The main goal of this book is to firmly establish the cross-linguistic occurrence of the zero-marking of spatial relations and to provide a framework for its study in terms of economy and predictability.

About the author

Thomas Stolz, University of Bremen; Sander Lestrade, Radboud University Nijmegen; Christel Stolz, University of Bremen.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Stolz, Sander Lestrade, Christel Stolz, Thoma Stolz, Sande Lestrade
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.12.2014
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
• EAN: 9783050062761
• ISBN: 978-3-0-5006276-1
• Pages: 405
• Dimensions (packing): 15.6 x 2.5 x 23.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 734 g
• Series: Studia typologica > .15; Studia Typologica > 15; ISSN > 15; Studia Typologica [STTYP] > 15