Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's LanguagesBringing together the results of sixty years of research in typology and universals, this textbook presents a comprehensive survey of Morphosyntax - the combined study of syntax and morphology. Languages employ extremely diverse morphosyntactic strategies for expressing functions, and Croft provides a comprehensive functional framework to account for the full range of these constructions in the world's languages. The book explains analytical concepts that serve as a basis for cross-linguistic comparison, and provides a rich source of descriptive data that can be analysed within a range of theories. The functional framework is useful to linguists documenting endangered languages, and those writing reference grammars and other descriptive materials. Each technical term is comprehensively explained, and cross-referenced to related terms, at the end of each chapter and in an online glossary. This is an essential resource on Morphosyntax for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and linguistic fieldworkers. |
Contents
Croft_9781107093638_Ch02pdf | 32 |
Croft_9781107093638_Part 2pdf | 63 |
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Croft_9781107093638_Epilogpdf | 616 |
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Croft_ 9781107093638_Indexpdf | 660 |
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action adjective adposition adverbial clause alignment strategy anaphoric Animacy apodosis argument phrase argument structure construction basic causal Chapter Classical Nahuatl co-expression combination comparative concepts complement clause construction complex predicate complex sentence Comrie construction cxn contrast coordinate clause coordination copula core argument Croft crosslinguistic defined denotes deranked discourse distinct Dryer encoded English epistemic stance eventive complex predicates example flag grammatical grammaticalization Haspelmath head Hierarchy ideophones illustrated indexation inflection information packaging function interrogative intransitive König languages locative marker matrix clause modality modification constructions modifier morpheme morphosyntactic motion events nonprototypical object concept participant roles person possessor possessum predication construction property concepts propositional attitude protasis prototypical recruited referring expression referring phrase relative clause relative clause construction salient semantic classes semantic relations speaker speech act Stassen strategy str struction support verb Table thetic tion topic topic-comment transitive construction typological verb form verbal voice construction word class word order zero