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OverviewThis book is the outcome of several decades of research experience, with contributions by leading scholars based on long-term field research. It combines approaches from descriptive linguistics, anthropological linguistics, socio-historical studies, areal linguistics, and social anthropology. The key concern of this ground-breaking volume is to investigate the linguistic means of expressing number and countable amounts, which differ greatly in the worlds languages. It provides insights into common number-marking devices and their not-so-common usages, but also into phenomena such as the absence of plurals, or transnumeral forms. The different contributions to the volume show that number is of considerable semantic complexity in many languages worldwide, expressing all kinds of extendedness, multiplicity, salience, size, and so on. This raises a number of challenging questions regarding what exactly is described under the slightly monolithic label of number in most descriptive approaches to the languages of the world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor of African Linguistics Anne Storch (University of Cologne Universitat zu Koln Universitat zu Koln Universitat zu Koln Universitat zu Koln University of Cologne University of Cologne) , Gerrit J Dimmendaal (University of Cologne)Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co ISBN: 9781306472548ISBN 10: 1306472547 Pages: 382 Publication Date: 15 May 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |