Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology

Since its first publication, Language Universals and Linguistic Typology has become established as the leading introductory account...
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Author: Bernard Comrie
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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology by Comrie, Bernard

Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology

$120.84

Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology

$120.84
Author: Bernard Comrie
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Since its first publication, Language Universals and Linguistic Typology has become established as the leading introductory account of one of the most productive areas of linguistics--the analysis, comparison, and classification of the common features and forms of the organization of languages. Adopting an approach to the subject pioneered by Greenberg and others, Bernard Comrie is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case making, relative clauses, and causative constructions. His book is informed throughout by the conviction that an exemplary account of universal properties of human language cannot restrict itself to purely formal aspects, nor focus on analysis of a single language. Rather, it must also consider language use, relate formal properties to testable claims about cognition and cognitive development, and treat data from a wide range of languages. This second edition has been revised and updated to take full account of new research in universals and typology in the past decade, and more generally to consider how the approach advocated here relates to recent advances in generative grammatical theory.

Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 07/15/1989
Pages: 275
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.03h x 5.98w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780226114330

About the Author
Bernard Comrie is chair of the department of linguistics at the University of Southern California. He is the author of many publications including Aspect and Tense, and is editor of Studies in Language.

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