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Author: Bernd Heine (Professor and Director, Institute for African Studies, Professor and Director, Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne, Germany)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 18.50cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9780195102512
ISBN 10: 0195102517
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 22 January 1998
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
an interesting and informative study that should appeal to linguistic and cognitive anthropologists, cognitive and historical linguists, and laypersons interested in languages ... Heine presents a plausible explanatory framework and lucid descriptions of a variety of lexical patterns and grammatical constructions in several domains of meaning. * Gary B. Palmer, Cognitive Linguistics, 10-2, 1999. * Wide-ranging the book indeed is ... and its lucid style, coherent focus, and wealth of examples make it an excellent intoduction to the topic and the method that it reprents ... richly informative book ... It can unreservedly be recommended as an introduction to contemporary grammaticalization theory, but it will also be useful and illuminating reading for researchers and students in all areas of cognitive-functional linguistics, and anyone interested in the cognitive foundations of language. * Chris Sinha, Linguistics 37-3 1999 *
an interesting and informative study that should appeal to linguistic and cognitive anthropologists, cognitive and historical linguists, and laypersons interested in languages ... Heine presents a plausible explanatory framework and lucid descriptions of a variety of lexical patterns and grammatical constructions in several domains of meaning. Gary B. Palmer, Cognitive Linguistics, 10-2, 1999. Wide-ranging the book indeed is ... and its lucid style, coherent focus, and wealth of examples make it an excellent intoduction to the topic and the method that it reprents ... richly informative book ... It can unreservedly be recommended as an introduction to contemporary grammaticalization theory, but it will also be useful and illuminating reading for researchers and students in all areas of cognitive-functional linguistics, and anyone interested in the cognitive foundations of language. Chris Sinha, Linguistics 37-3 1999
Author Information
Bernd Heine is Professor of African Studies (Afrikanistik) and Director of the Institute for African Studies at the University of Cologne in Germany. He has published thirty books, including Possession: Cognitive Sources, Forces, and Grammaticalization (1997), The Mukogodo Maasai: An Ethnobotanical Survey (co-author, 1994), Auxiliaries: Cognitive Forces and Grammaticalization (Oxford, 1993), and Grammaticalization: A Conceptual Framework (co-author, 1991).
