Complex constructions

Author(s)

• Shopen, Timothy

Bibliographic Information

Complex constructions

edited by Timothy Shopen

（Language typology and syntactic description / edited by Timothy Shopen, v. 2）

Cambridge University Press, 1985

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [287]-298

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Complex phrases and complex sentences John R. Payne
• 2. Complementation Michael Noonan
• 3. Relative clauses Edward L. Keenan
• 4. Adverbial clauses Sandra A. Thompson and Robert E. Longacre
• 5. Sentences as combinations of clauses Robert E. Longacre.

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Details

• NCID: BA00229129
• ISBN:
  • 0521268583
  • 052131898X
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 317 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P204
  • DC19 : 415
  • NDC8 : 801.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Typology (Linguistics)
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- syntax
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories
  • NDLSH : 文法
  • NDLSH : 類型学
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00229049