New challenges in typology transcending the borders and refining the distinctions
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Berlin
Mouton de Gruyter
2009
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| Schriftenreihe: | Trends in linguistics
217 |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes Word and phrase structure -- Case, agreement, and localization -- Tense, aspect, and desire -- Clause structure and derivation -- Class struggle : erasing borderlines -- New Challenges in methodology The volume brings together seventeen chapters by typologists and typologically oriented field linguists who have recently completed their Ph. D. theses. Through their case studies of selected theoretically relevant issues the authors highlight the mutual importance of language description, on the one hand, and of cross-linguistically informed theory, on the other. Faced with new data from previously unknown languages and even from lesser-studied varieties of European languages, linguists constantly have to deal with the inadequacy of established concepts and typologies, being pushed to further |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 428 pages) |
| ISBN: | 3110219050 3110219069 9783110219050 9783110219067 |