Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521588577)

This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. Clear and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, inflectional morphology, tense, aspect, mood, and deixis. 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. Volume 1 covers the parts-of-speech systems, word order, noun phrases, clause types, speech act distinctions, passives, and information packaging in the clause.

Author: Timothy Shopen
ISBN-10: 052158857X
ISBN-13: 9780521588577
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2007
Pages: 498
Format: Paperback
Weight: 3.08lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.24w x 1.11d