Spatial Interrogatives in Europe and Beyond

Spatial Interrogatives in Europe and Beyond
Author: Thomas Stolz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110538334

The extant generalizations about the grammar of space rely heavily on the analyses of declarative sentences. There is a need to check whether these generalizations also hold in the domain of interrogation. To this end this book analyzes data from some 450 languages (including non-standard varieties). The focus is on paradigms of spatial interrogatives such as English where, whither and whence and their internal organization. These paradigms are checked for recurrent patterns of morphological mismatches (such as syncretism) and different degrees of complexity (e.g. the number of segments). The data-base consists of a large parallel literary corpus (Le petit prince and translations thereof) which is complemented by further sources of information such as descriptive grammars. The data are analyzed from a synchronic perspective. However, diachronic issues are addressed unsystematically, too. It is shown that the distribution of phenomena which characterize paradigms of spatial interrogatives are subject to areal-linguistic factors. This is the first typological study of spatial interrogatives. It provides new insights for students of the grammar of space, morphological paradigms, and language typology.

Spatial Interrogatives in Europe and Beyond

Spatial Interrogatives in Europe and Beyond
Author: Thomas Stolz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110539519

The extant generalizations about the grammar of space rely heavily on the analyses of declarative sentences. There is a need to check whether these generalizations also hold in the domain of interrogation. To this end this book analyzes data from some 450 languages (including non-standard varieties). The focus is on paradigms of spatial interrogatives such as English where, whither and whence and their internal organization. These paradigms are checked for recurrent patterns of morphological mismatches (such as syncretism) and different degrees of complexity (e.g. the number of segments). The data-base consists of a large parallel literary corpus (Le petit prince and translations thereof) which is complemented by further sources of information such as descriptive grammars. The data are analyzed from a synchronic perspective. However, diachronic issues are addressed unsystematically, too. It is shown that the distribution of phenomena which characterize paradigms of spatial interrogatives are subject to areal-linguistic factors. This is the first typological study of spatial interrogatives. It provides new insights for students of the grammar of space, morphological paradigms, and language typology.

Spatial Questions

Spatial Questions
Author: Rob Shields
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2013-07-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1446286738

"Rob Shields provides here an immensely sophisticated and detailed examination of the topological turn. He has been examining these issues for some decades and this book will surely become the standard work on cultural and spatial topology" - John Urry, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University Our understanding of space is crucial to the way in which we understand major social problems and issues and the way we develop and maintain our worldviews. Building from a history of philosophical and geographical theories of space, Shields presents the importance of spatialisation and cultural topology in social theory and the possibilities that lie within these theoretical tools. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book goes beyond traditional ideas of spatiality and temporality to understand the multiplicity of spatialisations and relates them to everyday life.

Planning

Planning
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2001
Genre: City planning
ISBN:

Coordination Relations in the Languages of Europe and Beyond

Coordination Relations in the Languages of Europe and Beyond
Author: Caterina Mauri
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

For Space

For Space
Author: Doreen Massey
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2005-03-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781412903622

Questioning the implicit assumptions that we make about space, this text considers conventional notions of social science, as well as demonstrating how a vigorous understanding of space can impact on political consequences.

Space-age Aesthetics

Space-age Aesthetics
Author: Stephen Petersen
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Explores an international network of artists, artist groups, and critics linked by their aesthetic and theoretical responses to science, science fiction, and new media. Focuses on the Italian Spatial Artist Lucio Fontana and French Painter of Space Yves Klein.