Here, Comrie (linguistics, U. of Southern Cal.) is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
(113) iS an example of the same elliptical RD construction in Finnish: (113) Finnish (Vilkuna 1989) o,o NATTI TYTTO, [tuo Mikon pretty girl that Mikkogen morsian],. fiancee 'Pretty girl, that fiancée of Mikko's.
A thorough rewriting to reflect advances in typology and universals in the past decade.
The Principle of Uniformitarianism is, of course, something that has never been subjected to empirical verification and cannot be put to the test for obvious reasons; one simply cannot go back in time and examine languages spoken, say, ...
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This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change.
This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic ...
This is how language universals are placed within the field of typology.
Offers an introduction to linguistic typology that covers various linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change.
Contributions a` l'école d'été de la Société Suisse de Linguistique, Sion 1993. Acta Romanica Basiliensia 3: 3351. Seiler, Hansjakob. 1997. “Localisation et prédication”. In: Fuchs, Cathérine & Robert, St. (éds.). Diversité des langues ...
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples.