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.
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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.
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The chapters of his volume differ somewhat from much of what has preceded in volumes I and II. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tense locus, action nominal construction, individual subevents, deontic mode, morphological moods, action nominals, posture verbs, deictic notions, factual mood, realis mood, atelic processes, noun phrase syntax, posture notions, spatial demonstratives, nominal noun phrase, word formation processes, iterative events, instrumental prefix, stem modification, absolute tense, person deictics, spatial deictics, relative tense, deictic system, demonstrative system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Classical Arabic, Antsirabe Rakoto, Classical Nahuatl, Nez Perce, New Guinea, Mandarin Chinese, North America, Southern Sotho, American Sign Language, Gombe Fulani, Colloquial Egyptian Arabic, Guugu Yimidhirr, Nama Hottentot, Northeast Caucasian, Department of Linguistics, New York, Old English, Old Icelandic, Singular Plural Masculine New!
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tense locus, action nominal construction, individual subevents, deontic mode, morphological moods, action nominals, posture verbs, deictic notions, factual mood, realis mood, atelic processes, noun phrase syntax, posture notions, spatial demonstratives, nominal noun phrase, word formation processes, iterative events, instrumental prefix, stem modification, absolute tense, person deictics, spatial deictics, relative tense, deictic system, demonstrative system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Classical Arabic, Antsirabe Rakoto, Classical Nahuatl, Nez Perce, New Guinea, Mandarin Chinese, North America, Southern Sotho, American Sign Language, Gombe Fulani, Colloquial Egyptian Arabic, Guugu Yimidhirr, Nama Hottentot, Northeast Caucasian, Department of Linguistics, New York, Old English, Old Icelandic, Singular Plural Masculine New!
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- Introduction to Classical Nahuatl by J. Richard Andrews in Back Matter
- The Languages of Australia (Cambridge Language Surveys) by R. M. W. Dixon on page 391
- Languages of Australia and Tasmania (Janua Linguarum, Critica, No 1) by Stephen A. Wurm on page 391
- The Nez Perce (First Book) by Madelyn Klein Anderson in Back Matter
- Los angeles (Enigmas de las ciencias ocultas series) by Joan Wilhelm in Back Matter
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