Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Volume III: Gramatical Categories and the Lexicon (Language Typology & Syntactic Description)
By Unknown Author.
Description
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 u=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...
ISBN(s)
0521318998, 9780521318990
