A semantic typology of location, existence, possession and copular verbs: areal patterns of polysemy in Mainland East and Southeast Asia
This study is based on a sample of 116 languages from the Mainland East and Southeast Asian linguistic area. Its first objective is to examine four distinct synchronic patterns of areal polysemy, created by the semantic domains of copular, locative, existential and possessive verbs and the construct...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2022-01-01
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| Series: | Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0219 |