A cross-linguistic study of grammatical morphemes expressing spatial relationships that discusses the relationship between the way human beings experience space

This book brings together three perspectives on language and space that are quite well-researched within themselves, but which so far are lacking productive int

Space is presently the focus of much research and debate across disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy. One strong feature

How do people know where in the world they are? How do they find their way about? These are the sort of questions about spatial orientation with which this book

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links betwee