Studies in Syntactic Typology
Published on 1. January 1988
Book
Hardback
394 pages
978-1-55619-020-9 (ISBN)
Description
The papers in this volume are revised versions of presentations at the conference on Language Universals and Language Typology in March 1985 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They include new proposals of universals, results of investigations to validate or refine previously proposed universal generalizations, and discussions concerning the explanation of universals. The volume will be of great interest to researchers in syntax and in language universals. In addition, scholars in pragmatics, philosophy of linguistics, psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics and semantics will also find articles of interest in the book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
650 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-020-9 (9781556190209)
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Content
1. List of abbreviations; 2. Preface; 3. Language typology and linguistic explanation (by Hammond, Michael); 4. I. Agreement; 5. Agreement and the distribution of anaphora (by Fisher, Karin L.); 6. Finiteness and opacity: Evidence from the Balkans (by Rudin, Catherine); 7. Conditions for verb-coded coordinations (by Schwartz, Linda); 8. II. Word order; 9. Investigating universals of sentence complexity (by Abe, Yukikoko); 10. Universals of negative position (by Dryer, Matthew S.); 11. Accentuation typology, word order and theme-rheme structure (by Harlig, Jeffrey); 12. Preverbal focusing and type XXIII languages (by Kim, Alan Hyun-Oak); 13. III. Syntactic and pragmatic functions; 14. Datives and allatives (by Blansitt, Edward); 15. A typology of subjects (by Faarlund, Jan Terje); 16. Universals of topic-comment structure (by Gundel, Jeanette K.); 17. IV. Explaining universals; 18. The pragmatics of word order: Predictability, importance and attention (by Givon, T.); 19. On the function of marked and unmarked terms (by Gundel, Jeanette K.); 20. Incorporation, parallelism, and focus (by Haiman, John); 21. On explaining some right-left asymmetries in syntactic and morphological universals (by Hawkins, John A.); 22. The covariance of culture and grammar (by Perkins, Revere D.); 23. Author index; 24. Subject index; 25. Language index