Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists
- ISBN-10
- 0521588057
- ISBN-13
- 9780521588058
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 413
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-10-09
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Thomas Edward Payne
Description
Of the 6000 languages now spoken throughout the world around 3000 may become extinct during the next century. This guide gives linguists the tools to describe them, syntactically and grammatically, for future reference.
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