Language Typology and Syntactic Description
Language Typology and Syntactic Description
Volume 1: Clause Structure
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. Volume 1 covers the parts-of-speech systems, word order, noun phrases, clause types, speech act distinctions, passives, and information packaging in the clause.
- Comprehensive survey of the major structural aspects of languages found in all areas of the world
- Contributions from renowned linguists who are all experts in the topics covered
- A perfect manual of answers to the 'what' and 'how' questions that all linguistic fieldworkers ask
Product details
November 2007Hardback
9780521581561
500 pages
229 × 32 × 152 mm
0.9kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Parts-of-speech systems Paul Schachter and Timothy Shopen
- 2. Word Order Matthew S. Dryer
- 3. The major functions of the noun phrase Avery D. Andrews
- 4. Clause types Matthew S. Dryer
- 5. Speech act distinctions in grammar Ekkehard König and Peter Siemund
- 6. Passive in the world's languages Edward L. Keenan and Matthew S. Dryer
- 7. A typology of information packaging in the clause William A. Foley.
