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The geometry of grammatical meaning: Semantic maps and cross-linguistic comparison
Haspelmath, Martin
Grammatical forms often appear to have multiple functions or meanings, in a way that differs strikingly across languages, although there are also clear similarities. The semantic-map method has been proposed to summarize similarities and differences between languages in the way they code grammatical meanings, and this paper provides an authoritative overview of the method.
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- Publication date:
- July 18, 2003
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- Keyword(s):
- semantic map, linguistic typology, grammatical meaning
- Published in:
- The new psychology of language, vol. 2 (edited by Michael Tomasello), Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 211-242.
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0