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Meaning and Grammar : Cross-Linguistic Perspectives / ed. by Johan van der Auwera, Michel Kefer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; 10Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]Copyright date: ©1992Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (427 p.) : Zahlr. AbbContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110128055
  • 9783110851656
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 20
LOC classification:
  • P204 .M4 1991
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I. General considerations -- Reflections on the history of the study of universale: the example of the partes orationis -- Universals, explanations and pragmatics -- Isomorphic, anisomorphic, and heteromorphic universale -- 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 -- “Nouny” and “verby” adjectivale: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions -- Part III. Morphemes and lexical items -- Demonstratives and the localist hypothesis -- Phraseological universale: theoretical and applied aspects -- Scopal quantifiers: some universale of lexical effability -- Semantic Integrality: a universal semiotic feature of language and perception -- Foreground and background: Weinrich against Labov -- Lexical universale and universals of grammar -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I. General considerations -- Reflections on the history of the study of universale: the example of the partes orationis -- Universals, explanations and pragmatics -- Isomorphic, anisomorphic, and heteromorphic universale -- 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 -- “Nouny” and “verby” adjectivale: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions -- Part III. Morphemes and lexical items -- Demonstratives and the localist hypothesis -- Phraseological universale: theoretical and applied aspects -- Scopal quantifiers: some universale of lexical effability -- Semantic Integrality: a universal semiotic feature of language and perception -- Foreground and background: Weinrich against Labov -- Lexical universale and universals of grammar -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter

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