The Emergence of Functions in Language

ISBN: 9780198844297 出版年：2020 页码：337 Frajzyngier, Zygmunt Butters, Marielle Oxford University Press

This volume explores the question of why languages differ in the meanings expressed by their grammatical systems. It offers a new methodology to explore the differences and the motivations behind the emergence of meanings, based on data from a wide range of languages, including English, French, Polish, Chadic languages, and Sino-Russian idiolects.