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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. Most of the chapters in the second edition are substantially revised or completely new - some on topics not covered by the first edition. 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.
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Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Volume I
2008, Cambridge University Press
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in English
051136427X 9780511364273
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Language typology and syntactic description
1992, Cambridge University Press
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052125700X 9780521257008
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Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Volume I: Clause Structure (Language Typology and Syntactic Description)
August 30, 1985, Cambridge University Press
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0521276594 9780521276597
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"Parts of speech is the traditional term for the major classes of words that are grammatically distinguished in a language."
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