TY - BOOK ID - 80875961 TI - Language typology and syntactic description. PY - 2007 SN - 9780511367328 0511367325 1107172926 1281145947 9786611145941 0511366736 051136671X 0511365438 0511619421 0511555822 0521581567 052158857X PB - Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general. KW - Typology (Linguistics). KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Language and languages KW - Syntax KW - Syntax. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax KW - Typology (Linguistics) KW - Grammatical categories. KW - Morphology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80875961 AB - This unique 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 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. Volume I covers parts-of-speech systems, word order, the noun phrase, clause types, speech act distinctions, the passive, and information packaging in the clause. ER -