Language typology and syntactic description. Vol. 2, Complex constructions / edited by Timothy Shopen
- Additional Titles
- Complex constructions
- Published
- Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 465 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Shopen, Timothy
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- Contents
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and symbols; 1 Coordination; 2 Complementation; 3 Noun phrase structure; 4 Relative clauses; 5 Adverbial clauses; 6 Discourse structure; 7 Sentences as combinations of clauses; Bibliography; Language index; Subject index
- Summary
- This unique three-volume 2007 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 II covers co-ordination, complementation, noun phrase structure, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, discourse structure, and sentences as combinations of clauses.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780511367335 (electronic bk.)
0511367333 (electronic bk.)
9780511619434 (electronic bk.)
051161943X (electronic bk.)
9780511365447
0511365446
0521581575
9780521581578
0521588561
9780521588560 - Note
- Previous edition: 1985.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-449) and indexes.
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