Word: A Cross-linguistic Typology

✍ Scribed by R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A distinguished international group of scholars analyze the concept of "word" and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse languages. The languages include Amazonian, Australian Aboriginal, Eskimo, Native North American, West African, Balkan, Caucasian and Indo-Pakistani Sign Language. They exhibit a great range of phonological, morphological and grammatical characteristics, enabling the contributors to refine the definition of a "word" against this broad linguistic landscape. The book is of interest to scholars of linguistic typology and of morphology.

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Типология и сопоставительное языкознание;