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Language typology and syntactic description.
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ISBN: 9780521588577 9780521588560 9780521588553 9780521581561 9780521581578 9780521581585 9780511619434 9780511618437 9780511619427 9780511367335 0511367333 051161943X 9780511365447 0511365446 0521581575 0521588561 1107172942 1281145955 9786611145958 0511366744 0511366728 0511555830 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This unique three-volume 2007 survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. Clearly organized and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, inflectional morphology, tense, aspect, mood, and diexis. The contributors look at the major ways that these notions are realized, and provide informative sketches of them at work in a range of languages. Each volume is accessibly written and clearly explains each new concept introduced. Although the volumes can be read independently, together they provide an indispensable reference work for all linguists and fieldworkers interested in cross-linguistic generalizations. Most of the chapters in the second edition are substantially revised or completely new - some on topics not covered by the first edition. Volume II covers co-ordination, complementation, noun phrase structure, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, discourse structure, and sentences as combinations of clauses.

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