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  Reciprocals and semantic typology

Evans, N., Gaby, A., Levinson, S. C., & Majid, A. (Eds.). (2011). Reciprocals and semantic typology. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

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Evans, Nicholas1, Editor
Gaby, Alice2, Editor
Levinson, Stephen C.3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Editor           
Majid, Asifa3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Editor           
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1Australian National University, ou_persistent22              
2University of California at Berkeley , ou_persistent22              
3Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_792548              
4Categories across Language and Cognition, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_55211              
5Language documentation and data mining, ou_persistent22              
6Radboud University Nijmegen, ou_persistent22              
7Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, ou_55236              

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 Abstract: Reciprocals are an increasingly hot topic in linguistic research. This reflects the intersection of several factors: the semantic and syntactic complexity of reciprocal constructions, their centrality to some key points of linguistic theorizing (such as Binding Conditions on anaphors within Government and Binding Theory), and the centrality of reciprocity to theories of social structure, human evolution and social cognition. No existing work, however, tackles the question of exactly what reciprocal constructions mean cross-linguistically. Is there a single, Platonic ‘reciprocal’ meaning found in all languages, or is there a cluster of related concepts which are nonetheless impossible to characterize in any single way? That is the central goal of this volume, and it develops and explains new techniques for tackling this question. At the same time, it confronts a more general problem facing semantic typology: how to investigate a category cross-linguistically without pre-loading the definition of the phenomenon on the basis of what is found in more familiar languages.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2009201020112011
 Publication Status: Issued
 Pages: viii, 349 pp.
 Publishing info: Amsterdam : Benjamins
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 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: ISBN: 978 90 272 0679 4
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Title: Typological Studies in Language
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