Publications

Publication details [#29735]

Carroll, Mary and Christiane von Stutterheim. 1993. The representation of spatial configurations in English and German and the grammatical structure of locative and anaphoric expressions. Linguistics 31 (6) : 1011–1041.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | description | expression1 | information chunking | space deixis, processing of

Language as a subject

English | German

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This comparative study of the grammatical and lexical structure of locative expressions in English and German argues that these structures both reflect general and language-specific patterns of information organization.