Books written by Bernard Comrie
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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology
This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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The World Atlas of Language Structures
"The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) provides ... 142 maps showing the geographic distribution of structural linguistic features"--Intro.
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Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries
(21 April 2016). Noonan, Michael, with Bhulanja, Ram Prasad, Chhantyal, Jag Man & Pagliuca, William. 1999. Chantyal Dictionary and Texts.
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Causatives and Transitivity
This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia.
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Tense
This has given rise , in some accounts of tense ( especially of tense in individual languages ) , to the setting up of separate tense categories to refer to situations that actually hold at the present moment ( such as the Eiffel Tower ...
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Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Maltese Linguistics, Bremen, 1820 October, 2007
2oo3.xii, 366 pp. NARIYAMA, Shigeko: Ellipsis and Reference Tracking in Japanese. 2003. xvi, 400 pp. MATSUMOTO, Kazuko: Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation. Syntactic, informational and functional structures. 2003. xviii, 215 pp.
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The World Atlas of Language Structures
The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages.
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Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples.
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Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook
In the case of Chamorro, Ojibwe and Kalkatungu, the alignment of antipassivization follows the secundative alignment ... Relativization With respect to relativization, two main questions arise relating to the accessibility of positions ...
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Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook
This volume includes a typological overview of ditransitive constructions, the editors' questionnaire, as well as studies of ditransitive constructions in languages from all over the world.
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The World's Major Languages
Perspectives from Romance Inflectional Morphology (Oxford University Press, Oxford) Recasens, D. 2014. Coarticulation and Sound Change in Romance (Benjamins, Amsterdam) Recasens, D., Sánchez Miret, F. and Wireback, K.J. (eds) 2010.
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Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples.
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Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art
Nominalization and nominalization-based constructions in Galo. In Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona (eds.), Nominalization in Asian languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives (Typological Studies in Language 96) ...
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Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art
The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope.
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New Perspectives on the Origins of Language
In contrast, cultural evolution is now emerging as the main paradigm for understanding the evolution of language. Computational modeling has been one of the key factors in bringing about the change in focus from biological to cultural ...
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The World's Major Languages
The numeral 'one' takes agreement in the singular, e.g. jeden dzien ́ 'one day', jedna kobieta 'one woman', and itself agrees in gender and case with the noun it modifies. It also has a plural form jedne/jedni meaning ending in 'one' ...
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Language Contact and Documentation / Contacto lingüístico y documentación
The volume is highly relevant to the current regional and international discussion on endangered languages, language contact, documentation and areal typology.
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Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology
... An Introduction to Classical (Literary) Mongolian. Grammar, Reader, Glossary. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Isxakov, PG. 8: Pal'mbax, A.A. 1961. Grammatika tuvinskogo jazyka. MOSkva: Izdatelstvo vostoénoj literatury. IastremSkij, S.V. 1898 ...
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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume III: Salt Lake City, Utah 1989
This is the third in a continuing series of papers presented at the annual meetings of the Arabic Linguistic Society whose primary purpose is to provide a forum for the study of Arabic within current approaches in linguistics.
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Introducing the Framework, and Case Studies from Africa and Eurasia
The volume is essential reading for anyone interested in valency and argument structure, irrespective of theoretical persuasion, and will serve as a model for future descriptive studies of valency in individual languages.