On ancient grammars of space : linguistic research on the expression of spatial relations and motion in ancient languages /

This volume presents new research by the TOPOI group "Spaces in Language" on the expression of spatial relations in ancient languages. The six articles in this volume discuss static and dynamic aspects of the spatial grammars of Ancient to Medieval Greek, Akkadian, Hittite, and Ancient Egy...

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Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Other Authors:	Kutscher, Silvia, Werning, Daniel A.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014.
Series:	Topoi (Berlin, Germany) ; v.19.
Subjects:	Space and time in language > History. Languages, Modern > Grammar, Historical. Language and languages > Grammars > History. Spatial behavior. Cognitive grammar. Psycholinguistics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	This volume presents new research by the TOPOI group "Spaces in Language" on the expression of spatial relations in ancient languages. The six articles in this volume discuss static and dynamic aspects of the spatial grammars of Ancient to Medieval Greek, Akkadian, Hittite, and Ancient Egyptian, as well as field data on eight modern languages. All ancient language data are fully explained in linguistic glosses.
Item Description:	The semantic space of static spatial prepositions in Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian. A comparison with nine Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic languages based on the Topological Relations Picture SeriesE-mail addresses of the authors. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxvii, 327 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9783110311358 3110311356