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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"semantic typology"”.
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The case for fewer cases in pre-chukotko-kamchatkan: Grammaticalization and semantics in internal reconstruction
… system in Proto-Chukotko- Kamchatkan, and I use semantic typology to support the plausibility of these developments. Examples of similar phenomena in other language families are used for comparison as well. I conclude that six grammatical cases (and a more regular case system) can be …
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Motion in Language and Experience : Actual and Non-actual motion in Swedish, French and Thai
… according to the framework of Holistic Spatial Semantics, which assumes a set of semantic categories and claims that these are distributed across clauses and descriptions rather than being localized to a select few form classes, such as verbs and so-called satellites. The descriptions in the …