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Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factorsEdited by Rik De Busser and Randy J. LaPolla
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 6] 2015
► pp. v–vi
Edited by Rik De Busser and Randy J. LaPolla
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 6] 2015
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
Chapter 1. The influence of social, cultural, and natural factors on language structure: An overview
Grammar and culture
Chapter 2. On the logical necessity of a cultural and cognitive connection for the origin of all aspects of linguistic structure
Chapter 3. The body, the universe, society and language: Germanic in the grip of the unknown
Chapter 4. When culture grammaticalizes: The pronominal system of Onya Darat
Chapter 5. The cultural bases of linguistic form: The development of Nanti quotative evidentials
Grammar and society
Chapter 6. Societies of intimates and linguistic complexity
Chapter 7. On the relation between linguistic and social factors in migrant language contact
Grammar and geography
Chapter 8. Topography in language: Absolute Frame of Reference and the Topographic Correspondence Hypothesis
Chapter 9. Walk around the clock: The shaping of a (counter-)clockwise distinction in Siar directionals
Chapter 10. Types of spread zones: Open and closed, horizontal and vertical
Grammar and evolution
Chapter 11. The role of adaptation in understanding linguistic diversity
Grammar and the field of linguistics
Chapter 12. On becoming an object of study: Legitimization in the discipline of Linguistics
Subjects and Languages Index
Author Index
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