Meaning and Grammar: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

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Meaning and Grammar

Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

Edited by: Michel Kefer and Johan van der Auwera

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1992

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Volume 10 | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	IX
Part I. General considerations
Reflections on the history of the study of universale: the example of the partes orationis Georg Bossong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Universals, explanations and pragmatics Hartmut Haberland and Lars Heltoft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
Isomorphic, anisomorphic, and heteromorphic universale John E. Joseph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
Part II. Syntactic categories and constructions
Towards a typology of voice Ineke Brus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
Non-verbal predicability Kees Hengeveld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
Impersonal constructions as a strategy for second-order predication Zbigniew Kański Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
Polarization as a universal of linguistic organization Juan Carlos Moreno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Towards a semantic typology of language Franz Müller-Gotama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
A hierarchy of main predicate encoding Leon Stassen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
On explaining double object constructions Lieve Van de Walle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
“Nouny” and “verby” adjectivale: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions Harrie Wetzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
Part III. Morphemes and lexical items
Demonstratives and the localist hypothesis Walter De Mulder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	265
Phraseological universale: theoretical and applied aspects Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
Scopal quantifiers: some universale of lexical effability David Gil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
Semantic Integrality: a universal semiotic feature of language and perception Yishai Tobin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
Foreground and background: Weinrich against Labov Carl Vetters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	367
Lexical universale and universals of grammar Anna Wierzbicka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	383
Author Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	417
Language Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	422
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	425
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	430

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July 31, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9783110851656

Hardcover published on:

March 1, 1992

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110128055

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Reprint 2013

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10

Main content:

427

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Zahlr. Abb.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110851656

eBook ISBN: 9783110851656

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110128055

Keywords for this book

Sprachliche Universalien; Morphem; Einfacher Satz; Prädikat

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