The main aim of this book is to address a fundamental question in linguistics, namely why languages are similar and why they are different. The study proposes that languages are fundamentally similar when they encode the same meanings in their grammatical systems and that languages are different whe
A Functional Approach to Syntax In Generative Description of Language
✍ Scribed by Petr Sgall, Ladislav Nebeský, Alla Goralčíková, Eva Hajičová
- Publisher
- American Elsevier Publishing Company
- Year
- 1969
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 130
- Category
- Library
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