| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford linguistics.
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| Contents |
1. What there might be and what there is: an introduction to canonical typology / Dunstan Brown and Marina Chumakina -- 2. A base for canonical negation / Oliver Bond -- 3. Canonical morphosyntactic features / Greville G. Corbett -- 4. Some problems in the typology of quotation: a canonical approach / Nicholas Evans -- 5. Unpacking finiteness / Irina Nikolaeva -- 6. The canonical clitic / Andrew Spencer and Ana Luís -- 7. Passive agents: prototypical vs. canonical passives / Anna Siewierska and Dik Bakker -- 8. The criteria for reflexivization / Martin Everaert -- 9. Possession and modification -- a perspective from canonical typology / Irina Nikolaeva and Andrew Spencer -- 10. An ontological approach to canonical typology: laying the foundations for e-linguistics / Scott Farrar |
| Summary |
This book presents canonical typology, a framework for comparing constructions and categories across languages. The canonical method takes the criteria used to define particular categories or phenomena (eg negation, finiteness, possession) to create a multidimensional space in which language-specific instances can be placed. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Dunstan. editor
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Chumakina, Marina, editor
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Corbett, Greville G.
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| ISBN |
9780191746154 (ebook) |
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9780199604326 |
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