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Here, Comrie linguistics, U. of Southern Cal. is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case marking, relative clauses, and causative constructions. This second edition takes full account of new research into generative grammatical theory. Acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR booknews.comProduct Details
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Table of Contents
1.1. Approaches to Language Universals
1.1.1. Two major approaches
1.1.2. The data base
1.1.3. Degrees of abstractness
1.2. Classification of Language Universals
1.2.1. Formal and substantive universals
1.2.2. Implicational and non-implicational universals
1.2.3. Absolute universals and tendencies
1.3. Explanations for Language Universals
1.3.1. Common genetic origin
1.3.2. External explanations
1.4. Summary Notes and references
2. Language Typology
2.1. Typology and Universals
2.2. Typological Parameters
2.3. Morphological Typology
2.4. Some Further Typological Parameters Notes and references
3. Theoretical Prerequisites
3.1. Semantic Roles
3.2. Pragmatic Roles
3.3. Grammatical Relations
3.4. Morphological Cases
3.5. Illustration: English and Russian Clause Structure Notes and references
4. Word Order
4.1. Word Order Parameters
4.2. Correlations Among Word Order Parameters
4.2.1. Greenberg's correlations
4.2.2. Generalizations of Greenberg's results
4.2.3. Critique of the generalizations
4.3. The Value of Word Order Typology Notes and references
5. Subject
5.1. The Problem
5.2. On Definitions and Categories
5.3. Ergativity
5.4. Semantic and Pragmatic Factors Notes and references
6. Case Marking
6.1. The Discriminatory Function of Cases
6.2. Natural Information Flow in the Transitive Construction
6.2.1. Inverse forms
6.2.2. Differential marking of A and P
6.3. Summary Notes and References
7. Relative Clauses
7.1. Some Typological Characteristics of English Relative Clauses
7.2. Types of Relative Clause
7.2.1. Defining the notion relative clause
7.2.2. Word order and relative clause types
7.2.3. The role of the head in the relative clause
7.2.4. The role of the head in the main clause
7.3. Accessibility to Relative Clause Formation
7.3.1. Simplex sentences
7.3.2. Complex constructions
7.3.3. The distribution of relative clause types Notes and references
8. Causative Constructions
8.1. Parameters in the Study of Causative Constructions
8.1.1. Formal parameters
8.1.2. Semantic parameters
8.2. Valency Changes in Morphological Causatives Notes and references
9. Animacy
9.1. Introduction: The Nature of Animacy
9.2. Phenomena Controlled by Animacy
9.3. Conceptual Animacy Distinctions
9.4. Conclusions: The Nature of Animacy Notes and references
10. Typological and Historical Linguistics
10.1. Diachronic Dimensions in Universals and Typology
10.2. Areal Typology
10.3. Typology and Reconstruction
10.3.1. Word order typology
10.3.2. Word order and morpheme order
10.4. Typology and Diachronic Explanation Notes and references
11. Conclusions and Prospects Map showing location of languages cited References Index of languages Index of proper names Index of topics