Overview

This volume contains revised versions of presentations made at the language conference in 1985. They include proposals of universals, results of investigations to validate or refine previously proposed universal generalizations and discussions concerning the explanation of universals. The volume will be of interest to researchers in syntax and in language universals. In addition, scholars in pragmatics, philosophy of linguistics, psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics and semantics will also find articles of interest in the book.

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Author:   Michael Hammond (University of Wisconsin) ,  Edith A. Moravcsik (Milwaukee) ,  Jessica Wirth (Milwaukee)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.880kg
ISBN:  

9789027228918

ISBN 10:   9027228914
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   01 January 1988
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. List of abbreviations; 2. Preface; 3. Language typology and linguistic explanation (by Hammond, Michael); 4. I. Agreement; 5. Agreement and the distribution of anaphora (by Fisher, Karin L.); 6. Finiteness and opacity: Evidence from the Balkans (by Rudin, Catherine); 7. Conditions for verb-coded coordinations (by Schwartz, Linda); 8. II. Word order; 9. Investigating universals of sentence complexity (by Abe, Yukikoko); 10. Universals of negative position (by Dryer, Matthew S.); 11. Accentuation typology, word order and theme-rheme structure (by Harlig, Jeffrey); 12. Preverbal focusing and type XXIII languages (by Kim, Alan Hyun-Oak); 13. III. Syntactic and pragmatic functions; 14. Datives and allatives (by Blansitt, Edward); 15. A typology of subjects (by Faarlund, Jan Terje); 16. Universals of topic-comment structure (by Gundel, Jeanette K.); 17. IV. Explaining universals; 18. The pragmatics of word order: Predictability, importance and attention (by Givon, T.); 19. On the function of marked and unmarked terms (by Gundel, Jeanette K.); 20. Incorporation, parallelism, and focus (by Haiman, John); 21. On explaining some right-left asymmetries in syntactic and morphological universals (by Hawkins, John A.); 22. The covariance of culture and grammar (by Perkins, Revere D.); 23. Author index; 24. Subject index; 25. Language index

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