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Oxford Handbook of Ergativity
Av Lisa deMena Travis, Diane Massam m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
2077 kr
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This volume offers theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the issues pertaining to ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the exclusion of transitive subjects. This pattern differs markedly from nominative/accusative …
Oxford Handbook of Ergativity
Av Lisa deMena Travis, Diane Massam m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
2077 kr
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This volume offers theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the issues pertaining to ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the exclusion of transitive subjects. This pattern differs markedly from nominative/accusative …
Count and Mass Across Languages
Av Diane Massam
E-bok, 2012
688 kr
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This volume explores the expression of the concepts count and mass in human language and probes the complex relation between seemingly incontrovertible aspects of meaning and their varied grammatical realizations across languages. In English, count nouns are those that can be counted and pluralized …
Niuean
Predicates and Arguments in an Isolating Language
Av Diane Massam
E-bok, 2020
1454 kr
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This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since Aristotle, it has been claimed that a sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. Niuean constitutes the perfect testing …
Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces
Av Diane Massam, Lauren Clemens
E-bok, 2021
1454 kr
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This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on Hawaiian, MÄori, Niuean, Samoan, and Tongan. Languages in this family present multiple characteristics of particular interest for comparative syntactic …
The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity
Av Jessica Coon, Diane Massam m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2650 kr
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This volume offers theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the issues pertaining to ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the exclusion of transitive subjects. This pattern differs markedly from nominative/accusative …
Niuean
Predicates and Arguments in an Isolating Language
Av Diane Massam
Inbunden, 2020
1623 kr
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This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since Aristotle, it has been claimed that a sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. Niuean constitutes the perfect testing …
Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces
Av Lauren Clemens, Diane Massam
Inbunden, 2021
1659 kr
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This volume brings together current research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces in the Polynesian language family, with chapters focusing on Hawaiian, Māori, Niuean, Samoan, and Tongan. Languages in this family present multiple characteristics of particular interest for comparative syntactic …
Count and Mass Across Languages
Inbunden, 2012
2783 kr
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This volume explores the expression of the concepts count and mass in human language and probes the complex relation between seemingly incontrovertible aspects of meaning and their varied grammatical realizations across languages. In English, count nouns are those that can be counted and pluralized …
Count and Mass Across Languages
Av Diane Massam
Häftad, 2012
1356 kr
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This volume explores the expression of the concepts count and mass in human language and probes the complex relation between seemingly incontrovertible aspects of meaning and their varied grammatical realizations across languages. In English, count nouns are those that can be counted and pluralized …
Ergativity
Emerging Issues
Av Alana Johns, Diane Massam m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1116 kr
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This volume presents a collection of papers on the enticing and complex theme of Ergativity. The papers exemplify theoretical depth applied to a wide range of languages, with the majority of papers based on original fieldwork. Ergativity refers to a grammatical pattern in which the logical subject …
Ergativity
Emerging Issues
Av Alana Johns, Diane Massam m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
1116 kr
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This volume presents a collection of papers on the enticing and complex theme of Ergativity. The papers exemplify theoretical depth applied to a wide range of languages, with the majority of papers based on original fieldwork. Ergativity refers to a grammatical pattern in which the logical subject …
Ergativity
Emerging Issues
Av Juvenal Ndayiragije, Diane Massam m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
1502 kr
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This volume presents a collection of papers on the enticing and complex theme of Ergativity. The papers exemplify theoretical depth applied to a wide range of languages, with the majority of papers based on original fieldwork. Ergativity refers to a grammatical pattern in which the logical subject …
