Timothy Shopen (ed.)

Language Typology and Syntactic Description

Volume 3, Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon
Herausgeber: Shopen, Timothy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This unique 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 new concept introduced. Although the volumes can be read independently, together they provide an indispensable reference work for all linguists and fieldworkers interested in cross-linguistic generalizations. Most of the chapters in the second edition are substantially revised or completely new - some on topics not covered by the first edition. Volume III covers typological distinctions in word formation, lexical typologies, inflectional morphology, gender and noun classes, aspect, tense, mood, and lexical nominalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 882g
• ISBN-13: 9780521581585
• ISBN-10: 0521581583
• Artikelnr.: 23260297

Autorenporträt

Timothy Shopen is former Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Typological distinctions in word formation Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
2. Lexical typologies Leonard Talmy
3. Inflectional morphology Balthasar Bickel and Johanna Nichols
4. Gender and noun classes Greville G. Corbett
5. Aspect, tense, mood Alan Timberlake
6. Lexical nominalization Bernard Comrie and Sandra Thompson.

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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.