33.2917, Books: Morphosyntax: Croft

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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:22:04
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Morphosyntax: Croft

 


Title: Morphosyntax 
Subtitle: Constructions of the World's Languages 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/morphosyntax-constructions-worlds-languages?format=PB 


Author: William Croft

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107093638 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 130.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107093638 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 99.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107093638 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 116.70
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107474611 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 46.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107474611 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 35.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107474611 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 42.00


Abstract:

Bringing 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.
 



Part I. Introduction: 1. Grammatical Constructions, Semantic Classes and
Information Packaging; 2. Propositional Act Constructions: The Skeleton of a
Sentence; Part II. Argument Phrase Structure: Reference and Modification: 3.
Reference and Referent Expressions; 4. Modification: Semantic Types and
Morphosyntactic Strategies; 5. The Structure and Origin of Modification
Constructions; Part III. Clause Structure: Predication and Arguments: 6. Event
Structure and Argument Coding: Semantics, Transitivity and Alignment; 7. Event
Structure and Nonprototypical Argument Coding; 8. Argument Coding and Voice:
Discourse Factors; 9. Argument Coding and Voice: Salience of Peripheral
Participants; 10. Nonprototypical Predication and Nonpredicational Clauses;
11. Information Packaging in Clauses; 12. Speech Act Constructions; 13.
Eventive Complex Predicates and Related Constructions; 14. Stative Complex
Predicates, including Manner; Part IV. Complex Sentences: 15. Temporal and
Causal Relations Between Events: Coordinate Clause and Adverbial Clause
Constructions; 16. Reference-tracking in Coordinate and Adverbial Clause
Constructions; 17. Other Semantic Relations Between Events: Comparative,
Conditional, and Concessive; 18. Events as Arguments: Complement Clause
Constructions; 19. Events as Modifiers: Relative Clause Constructions.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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