Meaning and Grammar
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2013
X, 427 pages
978-3-11-085165-6 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2013
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Zahlr. Abb.
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10,46 MB
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978-3-11-085165-6 (9783110851656)
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Contributors
- Part I. General considerations
- Reflections on the history of the study of universals: the example of the partes orationis
- Universals, explanations and pragmatics
- Isomorphic, anisomorphic, and heteromorphic universals
- Part II. Syntactic categories and constructions
- Towards a typology of voice
- Non-verbal predicability
- Impersonal constructions as a strategy for second-order predication
- Polarization as a universal of linguistic organization
- Towards a semantic typology of language
- A hierarchy of main predicate encoding
- On explaining double object constructions
- "Nouny" and "verby" adjectivals: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions
- Part III. Morphemes and lexical items
- Demonstratives and the localist hypothesis
- Phraseological universals: theoretical and applied aspects
- Scopal quantifiers: some universals of lexical effability
- Semantic integrality: a universal semiotic feature of language and perception
- Foreground and background: Weinrich against Labov
- Lexical universals and universals of grammar
- Author index
- Language index
- Subject index
