Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology
- ISBN-10
- 0226114333
- ISBN-13
- 9780226114330
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989-07-15
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Bernard Comrie
Description
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
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