Synopses & Reviews
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 u=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.
Synopsis
This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the worldâs languages. The contributors provide informative sketches of these structures at work in a diverse range of languages from all over the world. Although the volumes can be read independently, together they provide an indispensable reference work for all linguists and fieldworkers interested in cross-linguistic generalizations. Most of the chapters in the second edition are substantially revised or completely new - some on topics not covered by the first edition.
Table of Contents
Part I. The Word; 1. Typological distinctions in word formation Stephen R. Anderson; 2. Lexicalization patterns: semantic structure in lexical forms Leonard Talmy; Part II. Grammatical Categories; 3. Inflectional morphology Stephen R. Anderson; 4. Tense, aspect, and mood Sandra Chung and Alan Timberlake; 5. Deixis Stephen R. Anderson and Edward L. Keenan; Part III. Derivational Morphology; 6. Causative verb formation and other verb deriving morphology Bernard Comrie; 7. Lexical nominalization Bernard Comrie; Bibliography; Index.