Space in Diachrony

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Space in Diachrony xi
5. The goal-over-source principle in European languages 1
6. Overlaps in spatial encodings 41
7. Ablative and allative marking of static locations 67
8. How should a “classical” Satellite-Framed Language behave? 95
9. Differential Goal marking vs. differential Source marking in Ancient Greek 119
10. New evidence for the Source–Goal asymmetry 147
11. A diachronic take on the Source–Goal asymmetry 179
12. Spatial interrogatives 207
13. Asymmetries between Goal and Source prefixes in Spanish 241
14. Asymmetries in path encoding in Sicilian 281
15. Source-oriented and Goal-oriented events in Old and Modern French 305
16. Source-Location ambiguity and incipient decline in the recent evolution of the English directional particle away 329
17. Prepositional phrase vs. bare instrumental 347
18. Language index 369
19. Subject index 371