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As a follow-up study to the global comparison of spatial
interrogatives (Studia Typologica 20), the present book examines
the spatial declarative counterparts which are provided by the
expression class of spatial deictic adverbs. In a functionally
motivated typological approach, equivalents of Early Modern English
here - hither - hence and there - thither - thence are identified
across a sample of 250 languages from all macro-areas. These are
also quantitatively assessed to extrapolate areal and global trends
of coding patterns. The formal relationships between spatial
interrogative and spatial declarative paradigms are analyzed with a
focus on the syncretism of categories and of individual cells.
Qualitative discussions of patterns precede in-depth treatments of
problematic cases and other relevant issues related to the research
topic. The quantitative results strongly point to areal linguistic
trends concerning the distribution of distinct and non-distinct
coding of the three spatial relations Place, Goal, and Source.
Additional aspects such as quantitative evaluations of
constructional complexity are addressed subsequently.
The extant generalizations about the grammar of space rely heavily
on the analyses of declarative sentences. There is a need to check
whether these generalizations also hold in the domain of
interrogation. To this end this book analyzes data from some 450
languages (including non-standard varieties). The focus is on
paradigms of spatial interrogatives such as English where, whither
and whence and their internal organization. These paradigms are
checked for recurrent patterns of morphological mismatches (such as
syncretism) and different degrees of complexity (e.g. the number of
segments). The data-base consists of a large parallel literary
corpus (Le petit prince and translations thereof) which is
complemented by further sources of information such as descriptive
grammars. The data are analyzed from a synchronic perspective.
However, diachronic issues are addressed unsystematically, too. It
is shown that the distribution of phenomena which characterize
paradigms of spatial interrogatives are subject to areal-linguistic
factors. This is the first typological study of spatial
interrogatives. It provides new insights for students of the
grammar of space, morphological paradigms, and language typology.
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