New Challenges in Typology : : Transcending the Borders and Refining the Distinctions /

New Challenges in Typology : : Transcending the Borders and Refining the Distinctions / / ed. by Patience Epps, Alexandre Arkhipov.

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The volume brings together seventeen chapters by typologists and typologically oriented field linguists who have recently completed their Ph.D. theses. Through their case studies of selected theoretically relevant issues the authors highlight the mutual importance of language description, on the one...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Arkadiev, Peter,
Arkhipov, Alexandre,
Epps, Patience,
Ganenkov, Dmitry,
Haude, Katharina,
Howe, Chad,
Khanina, Olesya,
Letuchiy, Alexander,
Luís, Ana R.,
O’Connor, Loretta,
Rose, Françoise,
Seifart, Frank,
Serdobolskaya, Natalia,
Shluinsky, Andrey,
Thieberger, Nicholas,
Thornes, Tim,
Velde, Mark L. O.,
HerausgeberIn:
Arkhipov, Alexandre,
Epps, Patience,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 217
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Physical Description:1 online resource (428 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Word and phrase structure
  • Patterns of clitic placement: Evidence from ‘mixed’ clitic systems
  • Eton tonology and morphosyntax: A holistic typological approach
  • Part II. Case, agreement, and localization
  • A hierarchical indexation system: The example of Emerillon (Teko)
  • Where differential object marking and split plurality intersect: Evidence from Hup
  • Syncretisms and neutralizations involving morphological case: Challenges for markedness theory
  • Towards a typology of ‘attachment’ markers: Evidence from East Caucasian languages
  • Part III. Tense, aspect, and desire
  • Revisiting perfect pathways: Trends in the grammaticalization of periphrastic pasts
  • Individual-level meanings in the semantic domain of pluractionality
  • The symbiosis of descriptive linguistics and typology: A case study of desideratives
  • Part IV. Clause structure and verbal derivation
  • Comitative as a cross-linguistically valid category
  • Towards a typology of labile verbs: Lability vs. derivation
  • Towards the typology of raising: A functional approach
  • Historical pathways in Northern Paiute verb formation
  • Part V. Class struggle: Erasing borderlines
  • Reference and predication in Movima
  • All typologies leak: Predicates of change in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca
  • Multidimensional typology and Miraña class markers
  • Part VI. New challenges in methodology
  • Steps toward a grammar embedded in data
  • Backmatter

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