Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2, Complex Constructions (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Shopen, Timothy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This unique three-volume 2007 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 II covers co-ordination, complementation, noun phrase structure, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, discourse structure, and sentences as combinations of clauses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511364280
• Artikelnr.: 38186713

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.