This volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages and address the question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles an
Language at large : essays on syntax and semantics
✍ Scribed by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert M W Dixon
- Publisher
- Brill
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 630
- Series
- Empirical approaches to linguistic theory, v. 2
- Category
- Library
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✦ Subjects
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Типология и сопоставительное языкознание;
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