On Comitatives and Related Categories

This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. General linguists with an interest in case, functional typologists, grammaticalisation researchers and experts of markedness issues will value this book as an important contribution to their respective fields of interest.

The long and winding road leading from intuition via problems to comitatives	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Some problems with form and function	p. 5
Goals	p. 13
Categories, definitions and terminology	p. 15
Methodology and theory	p. 16
Corpus/sample	p. 92
Structure	p. 96
What happens when a universal blows up? : metaphor, syncretism, markedness	p. 98
The companion-metaphor	p. 98
Syncretism	p. 114
Systematicity of interaction	p. 166
Europe : a continent where many things appear to be the same but turn out to be different under the looking-glass	p. 196
A corpus-based analysis	p. 196
Case studies	p. 282
Something better change! Origins, life-cycle, contacts : the dynamics of comitatives	p. 357
Grammaticalisation	p. 357
Contact	p. 370
This is the end	p. 387
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