Screen LibraryNew challenges in typology : broadening the horizons and redefining the foundations /
The book presents up-to-date theoretical and methodological findings by gifted typologists and field linguists. The authors address selected theoretical questions of general linguistic relevance drawing from a wealth of data hitherto unfamiliar to the general linguistic audience. The grammatical phe...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2008] ©2007 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm] ;
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| Summary: |
The book presents up-to-date theoretical and methodological findings by gifted typologists and field linguists. The authors address selected theoretical questions of general linguistic relevance drawing from a wealth of data hitherto unfamiliar to the general linguistic audience. The grammatical phenomena covered range from phonology to the syntax of complex sentences. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (419pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110198904 |
| Index Number: | P204 |
| CLC: | H0 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Phonology and the interface between -- phonology, morphology, and syntax -- Strong linearity and the typology of -- templates -- The Phonology-Morphology Interface from the -- perspective of infixation -- Typological evidence for the separation between -- stress and foot structure -- Tone in Bodish languages: Typological and -- sociolinguistic contributions -- Part II. Morphology, the lexicon, and the structure -- of words -- Rembarrnga polysynthesis in cross-linguistic -- perspective -- Suppletion from a typological perspective -- Lexical classes: A functional approach to word -- formation -- Part III. Nominal and verbal morphosyntax in -- interaction: Transitivity and alignment -- Defining transitivity: Markedness vs. -- prototypicality -- From the typology of inversion to the typology of -- alignment -- Part IV. Pronominals -- Building semantic maps: The case of person -- marking -- Typology and historical linguistics: Some remarks -- on reflexives in ancient IE languages -- Part V. Verbal and clausal categories -- Discreteness and non-discreteness in the design of -- tense-aspect-mood -- Symmetric and asymmetric encoding of functional -- domains, with remarks on typological markedness -- The verbness markers of Moset n from a typological -- Part VI. Complex sentences -- Converging patterns of clause linkage in -- Nagaland -- The many faces of subordination, in Germanic and -- beyond -- Backmatter |