Language Universals and Linguistic Typology

Language Universals and Linguistic Typology
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 0226114333
ISBN-13 : 9780226114330
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Book Synopsis Language Universals and Linguistic Typology by : Bernard Comrie

Download or read book Language Universals and Linguistic Typology written by Bernard Comrie and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-07-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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