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Language at large : essays on syntax and semantics /
The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in the grammar and lexicography of English.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Colección: | Empirical approaches to linguistic theory ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Abbreviations; Part A Topics in Linguistic Typology; Chapter One Versatile Cases; Chapter Two A Typology of Argument-Determined Constructions; Chapter Three Causatives which do not Cause: Non-Valency-Increasing Effects of a Valency-Increasing Derivation; Chapter Four Non-Ergative Associations between S and O; Chapter Five Dependencies between Grammatical Systems; Chapter Six The Semantic Basis for a Typology; Chapter Seven Word-Class-Changing Derivations in Typological Perspective; Chapter Eight Speech Reports: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
- Chapter Nine Semi-Direct Speech in Typological PerspectivePart B Explaining Language; Chapter Ten Naive Linguistic Explanation; Chapter Eleven Multiple Marking of Syntactic Function and Polysynthetic Nouns in Tariana; Chapter Twelve Palikur and the Typology of Classifiers; Chapter Thirteen Zero and Nothing in Jarawara; Part C English Grammar and Lexicology; Chapter Fourteen Pronouns with Transferred Reference; Chapter Fifteen Comparative Constructions in English; Chapter Sixteen Features of the Noun Phrase in English; Chapter Seventeen Twice and Constituency.
- Chapter Eighteen Australian Aboriginal Word in Dictionaries--A HistoryBibliography; Author index; Language index; Subject index.