Language Universals, Linguistic Typology, Syntax and Morphology
Language Universals, Linguistic Typology, Syntax and Morphology
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This revised edition aims to take account of research that has been done in the field of universals and typology in the past decade. Comrie also employs his findings in an examination of recent generative grammatical theory.
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Language Universals, Linguistic Typology, Syntax and Morphology by Bernard Comrie
Adopting an approach to the subject pioneered by Greenberg and others, Professor Comrie is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals. The book has chapters on word order, case marking, relative clauses and causative contruction and is informed throughout by the conviction that an explanatory account of universal properties of human language cannot restrict itself to purely formal aspects. It must also take account of language use and relate formal properties to testable claims about cognition and cognitive development. This new edition has been revised to take account of new research in universals and typology in the past decade and applies its findings to the problems of generative grammatical theory.
Bernard Comrie, MPILeipzig, Germany&UC Santa Barbara, USA; Lucia Golluscio, DILA, Buenos Aires, Argentinia.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780631162568 |
| ISBN 10 | 0631162569 |
| Title | Language Universals, Linguistic Typology, Syntax and Morphology |
| Author | Bernard Comrie |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 1989-07-27 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |