Language Structure and Environment

Social, cultural, and natural factors
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-272-0409-7
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 351 Seiten

Reihe: Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts

Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the contributors explain in a number of detailed case studies how specific cultural, societal, geographical, evolutionary and meta-linguistic pressures determine the development of specific grammatical features and the global structure of a varied selection of languages. This is a work of meticulous scholarship at the forefront of a burgeoning field of linguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Busser, Rik

LaPolla, Randy J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie