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Essays on Language Function and Language Type
Dedicated to T. Givon
Av Thompson Sandra A. Thompson, Haiman John Haiman m. fl.
E-bok, 1997
1981 kr
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In their subject matter and in their theoretical orientation all the papers in this volume reflect the powerful influence of T. Givón. Most of them deal with questions of morphosyntactic typology, pragmatics, and grammaticalization theory. Many of them are directly based on extensive fieldwork on …
Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
Av Thompson Sandra A. Thompson, Haiman John Haiman
E-bok, 1988
1897 kr
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Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on …
Switch Reference and Universal Grammar
Proceedings of a symposium on switch reference and universal grammar, Winnipeg, May 1981
Av Munro Pamela Munro, Haiman John Haiman
E-bok, 1983
1830 kr
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Canonical switch-reference is an inflectional category of the verb, which indicates whether or not its subject is identical with the subject of some other verb. Switch-reference may be analyzed from a structural or a functional point of view. Functionally, switch-reference is a device for …
Hua
A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
E-bok, 1980
1897 kr
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There is no country in the world where as many different languages are spoken as in New Guinea, approximately a fifth of the languages in the world. Most of these so-called Papuan languages seem to be unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere. The present work is the first truly comprehensive study …
Cambodian
Khmer
E-bok, 2011
1577 kr
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Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of “Desesperanto” – a …
