Language Typology and Syntactic Description: All 3 Volumes Complete: Volume 1, Clause Structure, Volume 2 Complex Constructions and Volume 3 Grammatical Catergories and the Lexicon (All first edition softback printings 1985)

Timothy Shopen editor

ISBN 10: 0521276594 / ISBN 13: 9780521276597

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 1985

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Published by Cambridge University Press in 1985, here are all 3 Volumes of Language Typology and Syntactic Description edited by Timothy Shopen. Volume 1 Clause Structure (ISBN 0521276594)published 1985, orange and red card covers, 399 pages, the book is very good with the name of a previous owner (eminent Linguist Professor Rebecca Posner) written in ink at the top of the half title page. Volume 2 Complex Construction (ISBN O52131898X) again published 1985, orange red card covers, 317 pages, the book is in very good condition again with Rebecca Posner's inked in name written at the top of the full title page and some very minor card covers creasing. Volume 3 Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon (ISBN 0521318998) published 1985, orange and red card covers, 427 pages the book is again very good and again it has the ink name of Professor Posner at the top of the full title page. These three volumes are naturally weighty and so an extra £5 postage WILL be applied to all areas outside the UK. Please bear this in mind BEFORE ordering.

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• Titolo: Language Typology and Syntactic Description: All 3 Volumes Complete: Volume 1, Clause Structure, Volume 2 Complex Constructions and Volume 3 Grammatical Catergories and the Lexicon (All first edition softback printings 1985)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521276594
• ISBN 13: 9780521276597
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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Riassunto

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 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.

Contenuti

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations for grammatical items; Introduction; 1. Parts-of-speech systems Paul Schachter; 2. The major functions of the noun phrase Avery Andrews; 3. Speech art distinctions in syntax Jerrold M. Sadock and Arnold M. Zwicky; 4. Negation John R. Payne; 5. Passive in the world's languages Edward L. Keenan; 6. Information packaging in the clause William A. Foley and Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.; Bibliography; Index.