Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology
Title | Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Baldi |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 961 |
Release | 2011-10-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110253410 |
New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology is the fourth in a set of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. As in the other volumes, the non-technical style and extensive illustration with classical examples makes the content readable and immediately useful to the widest audience.
Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology
Title | Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology PDF eBook |
Author | Mouton De Gruyter |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 926 |
Release | 2011-10-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783112189023 |
New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology is the fourth in a set of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. As in the other volumes, the non-technical style and extensive illustration with classical examples makes the content readable and immediately useful to the widest audience.
Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse
Title | Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Joan L. Bybee |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027225856 |
The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson's career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career.
New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Complex sentences, grammaticalization, typology
Title | New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Complex sentences, grammaticalization, typology PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Baldi |
Publisher | Mouton De Gruyter |
Pages | 926 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9783110253405 |
New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology is the fourth in a set of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. As in the other volumes, the non-technical style and extensive illustration with classical examples makes the content readable and immediately useful to the widest audience.
Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure
Title | Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1, Clause Structure PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Shopen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1985-07-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521276597 |
The three volumes of Language Typology and Syntactic Description offer a unique survey of syntactic and morphological structure in the languages of the world. Topics covered include parts of speech; passives; complementation; relative clauses; adverbial clauses; inflectional morphology; tense, aspect and mood; and deixis. The major ways these notions are realized in the languages of the world are explored, and the contributors provide brief sketches of relevant aspects of representative languages. Each volume is written in an accessible style with new concepts explained and exemplified as they are introduced. Although each volume can be read independently, together they provide a major work of reference that will serve as a manual for field workers and anyone interested in cross-linguistic generalizations.
A Typology of Purpose Clauses
Title | A Typology of Purpose Clauses PDF eBook |
Author | Karsten Schmidtke-Bode |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027206694 |
Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and notational conventions -- 1. Aims and scope of the book -- 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations -- 3. The grammar of purpose -- 4. Purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences -- Summary: the developmental trajectories of purpose clauses -- Conclusion and outlook -- References
Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective
Title | Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Heiko Narrog |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2018-10-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0192515357 |
This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the same pathways of change are replicated across languages, certain language types and language areas have distinct preferences with respect to what they grammaticalize and how. Previous work has principally addressed this question with specific reference to languages of Southeast and East Asia that do not seem to grammaticalize paradigms of categories in the same manner as Indo-European languages, or form extensive grammaticalization chains. This volume takes a broader approach and proceeds systematically area by area: specialists in the field address the processes of grammaticalization in languages of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, and in creole languages. The studies reveal a number of unique pathways of grammaticalization in each language area, as well as identifying the universal shared features of the phenomenon.