Adjective attribution

"This book is the first typological study of adjective attribution marking. Its focus lies on Northern Eurasia, although it covers many more languages and presents an ontology of morphosyntactic categories relevant to noun phrase structure in general. Beside treating synchronic data, the study...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Rießler, Michael, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Language Science Press [2016]
Colección:Studies in diversity linguistics ; 2.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745265306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations and notational conventions
  • I Preliminaries
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Noun phrases and adjectival modifiers
  • 3 The syntax-morphology interface
  • II Typology
  • 4 Typology of attribution marking
  • 5 Polyfunctionality
  • III Synchrony
  • 6 Introduction
  • 7 The languages of northern Eurasia
  • 8 Areal uniformity and diversity
  • IV Diachrony
  • 9 The evolution of attribution marking
  • 10 Areal typology in the Circum-Baltic area
  • V Conclusion
  • 11 Results and conclusions
  • Appendix
  • Language sample and maps
  • References
  • Index.