Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure

Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 0521276594
ISBN-13 : 9780521276597
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Book Synopsis Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure by : Timothy Shopen

Download or read book Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure written by Timothy Shopen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-07-25 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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