Language and location in space and time
By: Petr Zima & Vladimír Tax (eds.).
Contributors: Zima, Petr.; Tax, Vladimír.; Communications, Contacts, and Barriers in Different Cultures and Regions of Europe and Africa (Project)
Series: LINCOM studies in theoretical linguistics ;; 07
Publisher: Lincom Europa
Published: 1998
Place of publication: München
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Space and time in language.; Grammar, Comparative and general.
Notes: English and French.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Papers prepared within the framework of the research project Communications, Contacts, and Barriers in Different Cultures and Regions of Europe and Africa ... The majority of the papers ... have been presented either at the international workshop Language and Its Stratification in Space and Time, held in Prague in 1996, or at various ... round-tables organized in 1996 and 1997"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Localisation in space and time and languages of different types and regions / Petr Zima; title: Space metaphor and global contrastive focus in Tura / Thomas Bearth; title: Directions/spatial orientations in African languages / Siegmund Brauner; title: From body to space and time / Bernard Caron; title: Basic time relations in the Saharan verbal systems / Norbert Cyffer; title: Some remarks about locative classes in modern Swahili / N.V. Gromova; title: Les relations spatiales et la déclinaison des langues indo-européennes / Tomáš Hoskovec; title: The venitive/allative dichotomy in some West African languages / H. Jungraithmayr; title: Diffusion lexicale : modelísations, preuves, épreuves / Robert Nicolaï; title: Spatial language, reasoning, and variation across Tamil communities / Eric Pederson; title: L'opposition "statique" vs. "cinétique" : fonctionnement des prépositions and des préverbes dans la langue et dans la parole / Jan Šabršula; title: Stabilizers expressing existence, identification, and localization in African languages and their roles in the dynamics of their systems / Petr Zima; title: Time and space in African folk-tales / Eleonore Adwiraah; title: Perception des espaces plurilingues ou polylectaux et activité épilinguistique / Cécile Canut.