Screen LibraryMeaning and grammar : cross-linguistic perspectives /
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[1992] ©1992 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Empirical approaches to language typology [ealt];
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110851656 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110851656.jpg |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource(x,427pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | Num. figs. |
| ISBN: | 9783110851656 |
| Index Number: | P204 |
| CLC: | H04 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Reflections on the history of the study of universale: the example of the partes orationis / Universals, explanations and pragmatics / Isomorphic, anisomorphic, and heteromorphic universale / Towards a typology of voice / Non-verbal predicability / Impersonal constructions as a strategy for second-order predication / Polarization as a universal of linguistic organization / Towards a semantic typology of language / A hierarchy of main predicate encoding / On explaining double object constructions / "Nouny" and "verby" adjectivale: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions / Demonstratives and the localist hypothesis / Phraseological universale: theoretical and applied aspects / Scopal quantifiers: some universale of lexical effability / Semantic Integrality: a universal semiotic feature of language and perception / Foreground and background: Weinrich against Labov / Lexical universale and universals of grammar / Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter. |