Meaning and Grammar : : Cross-Linguistic Perspectives / / ed. by Johan van der Auwera, Michel Kefer.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (427 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Contributors
- Part I. General considerations
- Reflections on the history of the study of universale: the example of the partes orationis
- Universals, explanations and pragmatics
- Isomorphic, anisomorphic, and heteromorphic universale
- Part II. Syntactic categories and constructions
- Towards a typology of voice
- Non-verbal predicability
- Impersonal constructions as a strategy for second-order predication
- Polarization as a universal of linguistic organization
- Towards a semantic typology of language
- A hierarchy of main predicate encoding
- On explaining double object constructions
- “Nouny” and “verby” adjectivale: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions
- Part III. Morphemes and lexical items
- Demonstratives and the localist hypothesis
- Phraseological universale: theoretical and applied aspects
- Scopal quantifiers: some universale of lexical effability
- Semantic Integrality: a universal semiotic feature of language and perception
- Foreground and background: Weinrich against Labov
- Lexical universale and universals of grammar
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- Backmatter