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Studies in Syntactic Typology.
The papers in this volume are revised versions of presentations at the conference on Language Universals and Language Typology in March 1985 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They include new proposals of universals, results of investigations to validate or refine previously proposed univer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1988.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- STUDIESIN SYNTACTIC TYPOLOGY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; Preface; Language typology and linguistic explanation; I. AGREEMENT; Agreementand the distribution of anaphora; Finiteness and opacity: evidence from the Balkans1; Conditions for verb-coded coordinations; II. WORD ORDER; Investigating universals of sentence complexity; APPENDIX; REFERENCES; Universals of negative position; Accentuation typology, word order, and theme-rheme structure; Preverbalfocusing and type XXIII languages; III. SYNTACTIC AND PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS.
- Datives and allativesA typology of subjects; Universalsof topic-comment structure; IV. EXPLAINING UNIVERSALS; The pragmatics of word-order: predictability, importance and attention; On the functions of marked and unmarked terms; Incorporation, parallelism, and focus; On explaining some left-right asymmetries in syntactic and morphological universais; The covariation of culture and grammar; Author index; Subject index; Language index.