Canonical morphology and syntax

Canonical morphology and syntax / edited by Dunstan Brown, Marina Chumakina, Greville G. Corbett.

This is the first book to present Canonical Typology, a framework for comparing constructions and categories across languages. The canonical method takes the criteria used to define particular categories or phenomena (eg negation, finiteness, possession) to create a multidimensional space in which l...

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Other Authors: Brown, Dunstan, Chumakina, Marina, Corbett, Greville G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. What there might be and what there is: an introduction to canonical typology / Dunstan Brown and Marina Chumakina
  • 2. A base for canonical negation / Oliver Bond
  • 3. Canonical morphosyntactic features / Greville G. Corbett
  • 4. Some problems in the typology of quotation: a canonical approach / Nicholas Evans
  • 5. Unpacking finiteness / Irina Nikolaeva
  • 6. The canonical clitic / Andrew Spencer and Ana Luís
  • 7. Passive agents: prototypical vs. canonical passives / Anna Siewierska and Dik Bakker
  • 8. The criteria for reflexivization / Martin Everaert
  • 9. Possession and modification
  • a perspective from canonical typology / Irina Nikolaeva and Andrew Spencer
  • 10. An ontological approach to canonical typology: laying the foundations for e-linguistics / Scott Farrar.

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