Case, Typology, and Grammar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Case, Typology, and Grammar write by Anna Siewierska. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Case, Typology, and Grammar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present volume is a collection of fifteen original articles that include descriptive, typological and/or theoretical studies of a number of morphosyntactic phenomena, such as case, transitivity, grammaticalization, valency alternations, etc., in a variety of languages or language groups, and discussions concerning theoretical issues in specific grammatical frameworks. The collection, written in honor of the Australian linguist Barry J. Blake on his 60th birthday, thematically reflects the field that Professor Blake has worked in over the past three decades. The volume will be of special interest to researchers in morphosyntax, and linguistic typology. In addition, scholars in discourse grammar, historical linguistics, theoretical syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and language contact will find articles of interest in the book.
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
Language Universals and Linguistic Typology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Universals and Linguistic Typology write by Bernard Comrie. This book was released on 1989-07-15. Language Universals and Linguistic Typology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Linguistic Typology
Linguistic Typology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Linguistic Typology write by Jae Jung Song. This book was released on 2018. Linguistic Typology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This textbook provides a critical introduction to major research topics and current approaches in linguistic typology. It draws on a wide range of cross-linguistic data to describe what linguistic typology has revealed about language in general and about the rich variety of ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages.
A Typology of Marked-S Languages
A Typology of Marked-S Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Typology of Marked-S Languages write by Corinna Handschuh. This book was released on 2020-10-09. A Typology of Marked-S Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Case-systems all over the world exhibit striking similarities. In most lan- guages intransitive subjects (S) receives less overt marking than one of the two transitive arguments (agent-like A or patient-like P); the other one of these two arguments is usually encoded by the same form as S. In some languages the amount of overt marking is identical between S, A, and P. But hardly ever does the S argument receive more overt marking than A or P. Yet there are some languages that do not follow this general pattern. This book is about those languages that behave differently, the marked-S languages. Marked-S languages are well-known to be found in East Africa, where they occur in two different language families, Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Sa- haran. They can also be found in North-Western America and the Pacific region. This book is the first investigation of marked S-languages that treats the phenomenon on a global scale. The study examines the functional distribution of the two main case- forms, the form used for S (S-case) and the case-form of the transitive ar- gument which receives less marking (the zero-case). It offers a very fine- grained perspective considering a wide range of constructions. The con- texts in which the case-marking patterns are investigated include nom- inal, existential and locational predication, subjects in special discourse function (e. g. focused constituents), subjects of passives and dependent clauses, as well as the forms used for addressing someone (vocative form) and for using a noun in isolation (citation form). Apart from the functional distribution of case forms, the formal means of marking are also considered. The main focus is on the synchronic de- scription and comparison of marked-S languages, but historical explana- tions for the unusual case-marking pattern are also discussed. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology
Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology write by William Croft. This book was released on 2020-09-25. Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change.
