Deixis and alignment : inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas / Fernando Zúñiga.

This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into a...

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Main Author: Zúñiga, Fernando
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : Benjamins, 2006.
Series:Typological studies in language ; v. 70.
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