Publications

Publication details [#42801]

Bergen, Benjamin K. and Madelaine C. Plauché. 2005. The convergent evolution of radial constructions: French and English deictics and existentials. Cognitive Linguistics 16 (1) : 1–42.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | deixis | existential utterance | form | meaning

Language as a subject

English | French

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study interprets the parallel evolution of French and English deictics and existentials as a case of convergent evolution of radial constructions.