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Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3: Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon
Timothy Shopen
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Paperback. Third in a three-volume survey exploring the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. Editor(s): Shopen, Timothy. Num Pages: 450 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 716.
This three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's 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. 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. Each volume is accessibly written and clearly explains each concept introduced. Although the volumes can be read independently, together they provide an indispensable reference work for all linguists and fieldworkers interested ... Read more
This three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's 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. 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. Each volume is accessibly written and clearly explains each concept introduced. Although the volumes can be read independently, together they provide an indispensable reference work for all linguists and fieldworkers interested ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
450
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
716 g
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521588553
SKU
V9780521588553
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About Timothy Shopen
Timothy Shopen is former Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the Australian National University.
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