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: Sande Lestrade, Sander Lestrade, Christel Stolz, Thoma Stolz, Thomas Stolz
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2014
• EAN: 9783050062761
• ISBN: 978-3-0-5006276-1
• No. of pages: 405
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 25 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 734 g
• Series: Studia typologica; Studia Typologica; ISSN; Studia Typologica [STTYP]
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics