Description - Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure by Timothy Shopen
This unique three-volume 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 I covers parts-of-speech systems, word order, the noun phrase, clause types, speech act distinctions, the passive, and information packaging in the clause.
Buy Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure by Timothy Shopen from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.
Other Editions - Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure by Timothy Shopen
A Preview for this title is currently not available.
Print on Demand, Firm Sale, 4-6 weeks for delivery.
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3, Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 2, Complex Constructions
