Product Description: Despite a growing interest for space in language, most research has focused on spatial markers specifying the static or dynamic relationships among entities (verbs, prepositions, postpositions, case markings…). Little attention has been paid to the very properties of spatial entities, their status in linguistic descriptions, and their implications for spatial cognition and its development in children...read more

Product Description: This book is a contribution to research related to the expression of space in language, centered on data from French and Basque. It proposes a formal approach to the spatial lexicon on three levels (geometry, function, pragmatics) as the foundation of its following descriptive analyses...read more