Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Clause Structure v. 1 (Language Typology & Syntactic Description)

Timothy Shopen

ISBN 10: 052158857X / ISBN 13: 9780521588577

Published by Cambridge University Press 2007-10-04, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Clause Structure v. 1 (Language Typology & Syntactic Description)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2007-10-04
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052158857X
• ISBN 13: 9780521588577
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Timothy Shopen is former Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the Australian National University.