TY - BOOK ID - 80875960 TI - Language typology and syntactic description. PY - 2007 SN - 9780511355479 0511355475 1107157331 1281153672 9786611153670 0511355386 0511354959 0511354371 0511555849 0511618433 0521581583 0521588553 PB - Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Morphology (Linguistics) KW - Categories, Grammatical KW - Grammatical categories KW - Categorization (Linguistics) KW - Componential analysis (Linguistics) KW - Language and languages KW - Syntax KW - Syntax. KW - Grammatical categories. KW - Morphology. KW - Major form classes KW - Typology (Linguistics) KW - Linguistic typology KW - Linguistics KW - Linguistic universals KW - Typology KW - Classification KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Morphology KW - Morphology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80875960 AB - This three-volume 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 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 - some on topics not covered by the first edition. Volume III covers typological distinctions in word formation, lexical typologies, inflectional morphology, gender and noun classes, aspect, tense, mood, and lexical nominalization. ER -