Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3, Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon Shopen Timothy
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3, Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon Shopen Timothy This three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the…
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Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3, Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon Shopen Timothy
This three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. 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. Clearly organized and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, inflectional morphology, tense, aspect, mood, and diexis.
Although the volumes can be read independently, together they provide an indispensable reference work for all linguists and fieldworkers interested in cross-linguistic generalizations. Each volume is accessibly written and clearly explains each concept introduced. Most of the chapters in the second edition are substantially revised - some on topics not covered by the first edition.
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