Structures and their functions in Usan : a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea
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書誌事項
Structures and their functions in Usan : a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea
（Studies in language companion series / series editors, Werner Abraham, Michael Noonan, v. 13）
J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Amsterdam)
Includes bibliographies and indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This two-volume work on syntax views grammar as a non-arbitrary language-processing device, to be understood in terms of the various substantive parameters relevant to language: communicative function, cognitive processing, socio-culture and neuro-biology. Distortions in this complex yet highly iconic code are due to conflicting functional requirements, most commonly introduced into the code through the course of diachronic change. Cross-linguistic variation within each functional domain is highly constrained and yields a coherent typology of the most natural ways the same communicative functions can be performed.
目次
- Background
- methodological preliminaries - communicative function and syntactic structure
- word classes
- simple sentences - predications and case-roles
- case-marking typology - subject, object and transitivity
- word-order typology
- information-theoretic preliminaries to discourse pragmatics
- tense-aspect-modality
- negation
- pronouns and grammatical agreement
- definiteness and referentiality.
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