Chapter Disentangling geography from genealogy

• Yazar: Cysouw, Michael (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Auer, Peter (Editör), Hilpert, Martin (Editör), Stukenbrock, Anja (Editör), Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (Editör)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2013
• Konular: linguistics; Dialect, slang & jargon; Discourse analysis; Space; Geolinguistics; Interaction; Cognition
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In this paper I will not seek to settle this question for individual cases of shared characteristics between two specific languages (e.g. why do French and German have no distance contrast in demonstratives?; see Diessel 2008;Cysouw 2011), because individual historical developments cannot be predict...