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Meaning and Grammar: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Michel Kefer (editor); Johan van der Auwera (editor)

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Leaves
440
Series
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]; 10
Edition
Reprint 2013
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
Part I. General considerations
Reflections on the history of the study of universals: the example of the partes orationis
Universals, explanations and pragmatics
Isomorphic, anisomorphic, and heteromorphic universals
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
β€œNouny” and β€œverby” adjectivals: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions
Part III. Morphemes and lexical items
Demonstratives and the localist hypothesis
Phraseological universals: theoretical and applied aspects
Scopal quantifiers: some universals of lexical effability
Semantic integrality: a universal semiotic feature of language and perception
Foreground and background: Weinrich against Labov
Lexical universals and universals of grammar
Author index
Language index
Subject index

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