Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3

Author: Timothy Shopen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985-07-25

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780521318990

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The three volumes of Language typology and syntactic description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense; aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized u=in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.

Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure

Author: Timothy Shopen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985-07-25

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780521276597

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The three volumes of Language Typology and Syntactic Description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense, aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.

Language Typology and Syntactic Description
Language Typology and Syntactic Description

Author: Timothy Shopen

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

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This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. Clear and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, inflectional morphology, tense, aspect, mood, and deixis. The contributors look at the major ways that these notions are realized, and provide informative sketches of them at work in a range of languages.

Radical Construction Grammar
Radical Construction Grammar

Author: William Croft

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780198299547

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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 between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but rather syntactic-semantic "Gestalts." He puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work.

Syntactic Structures
Syntactic Structures

Author: Noam Chomsky

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-05-18

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 3112316002

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Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology
Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology

Author: William Croft

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-09-25

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 900436353X

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In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change.

Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

Author: Bernard Comrie

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1989-07-15

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780226114330

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Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Approaches to Language Typology
Approaches to Language Typology

Author: Masayoshi Shibatani

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780198238669

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Language typology is concerned with the construction of theoretical frameworks capable of delimiting the range of human languages and of capturing constraints on cross-linguistic variation. This text offers accounts of the theoretical foundations and findings of leading scholars in this field.