Language typology and syntactic description
This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. Clear and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, inflectional morphology, tense, aspect, mood, and deixis. The contributors look at the major ways that these notions are realized, and provide informative sketches of them at work in a range of languages. Volume 1 covers the parts-of-speech systems, word order, noun phrases, clause types, speech act distinctions, passives, and information packaging in the clause
Print Book, English, 2007
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2007
3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
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v. 1. Clause structure
Parts-of-speech systems / Paul Schachter and Timothy Shopen
Word order / Matthew S. Dryer
The major functions of the noun phrase / Avery D. Andrews
Clause types / Matthew S. Dryer
Speech act distinctions in grammar / Ekkehard König and Peter Siemund
Passive in the world's languages / Edward L. Keenan and Matthew S. Dryer
A typology of information packaging in the clause / William A. Foley
v. 2. Complex constructions
Coordination / Martin Haspelmath
Complementation / Michael Noonan
Noun phrase structure / Matthew S. Dryer
Relative clauses / Avery D. Andrews
Adverbial clauses / Sandra A. Thompson, Robert E. Longacre, and Shin Ja J. Hwang
Discourse structure / Elise Kärkkäinen, Marja-Leena Sorjonen, and Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
Sentences as combinations of clauses / Robert E. Longacre
v. 3. Grammatical categories and the lexicon
Typological distinctions in word-formation / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Lexical typologies / Leonard Talmy
Inflectional morphology / Balthasar Bickel and Johanna Nicholds
Gender and noun classes / Greville G. Corbett
Aspect, tense, mood / Alan Timberlake
Lexical nominalization / Bernard Comrie and Sandra A. Thompson