Télécharger le livre :  Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance
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Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use, and in the forms they employ to express these. Such resemblances may be the consequence of universal characteristics of language, of chance or coincidence, of the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2006-03-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Serial Verb Constructions
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This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs. The introduction sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of variation, and the final chapter draws out a set of conclusions. These frame fourteen explorations of serial verb constructions and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2005-12-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Evidentiality
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In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from someone else. This grammatical reference to...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2004-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Adjective Classes
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This book shows that every language has an adjective class and examines how these vary in size and character. The opening chapter considers current generalizations about the nature and classification of adjectives and sets out the cross-linguistic parameters of their...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2004-09-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Classifiers
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Almost all languages have some grammatical means for the linguistic categorization of nouns. Well-known systems such as the lexical numeral classifiers of South-East Asia, on the one hand, and the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes of Indo-European...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2000-03-30

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