Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists
| Designed by | Mark Diaper |
| Designed at | UNA, Amsterdam |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Cambridge University Press, New York |
| Copyright | 1997 |
| Printed | 2014 |
| Pages / Font | 413 pages |
| Barcode | 9 780521 588058 |
| ISBN 13 | 978-0-521-58805-8 |
| Impression/Printing No. | 14 |
| Chapters | 0 Introduction 0.1 The purpose of this book 0.2 Some terminology and recurring metaphors 0.3 Conclusion 1 Demographic and ethnographic information 1.1 The name of the language 1.2 Ethnology 1.3 Demography 1.4 Genetic affiliation 1.5 Previous research 1.6 The sociolinguistic situation 1.7 Dialects 2 Morphological typology 2.0 Historical background and definitions 2.1 Traditional morphological typology 2.2 Morphological processes 2.3 Head/dependent marking 3 Grammatical catrgories 3.1 Nouns 3.2 Verbs 3.3 Modifiers 3.4 Adverbs 4 Constituent order typology 4.0 Introduction 4.1 Constituent order in main clauses 4.2 Verb phrase 4.3 Noun phrase 4.4 Adpositional phrases (prepositions and postpostitions) 4.5 Comparatives 4.6 Question particles and question words 4.7 Summary 5 Noun and noun-phrase operations 5.1 Compounding 5.2 Denominalization 5.3 Number 5.4 Case 5.5 Articles, determiners, and demonstratives 5.6 Possessors 5.7 Class (including gender) 5.8 Diminution/augmentation 6 Predicate nominals and related constructions 6.1 Predicate nominals 6.2 Predicate adjectives (attributive clauses) 6.3 Predicate locatives 6.4 Existentials 6.5 Possessive clauses 6.6 Summary of predicate nominal and EPL relationships 7 Grammatical relations 7.1 Systems for grouping S, A, and P 7.2 Functional explanations for groupings of S, A, and P 7.3 Split systems 7.4 "Syntactic" ergativity 7.5 Summary 8 Voice and valence adjusting operations 8.0 Valence and predicate calculus 8.1 Valence increasing operations 8.2 Valence decreasing operations 9 Other verb and verb-phrase operations 9.1 Nominalization 9.2 Compounding (including incorporation) 9.3 Tense/aspect/mode 9.4 Location/direction 9.5 Participant reference 9.6 Evidentiality, validationality, and mirativity 9.7 Miscellaneous 10 Pragmatically marked structures 10.0 Pragmatic statues 10.1 The morphosyntax of focus, contrast, and "topicalization" 10.2 Negation 10.3 Non-declarative speech 11 Clause combinations 11.1 Serial verbs 11.2 Complement clauses 11.3 Adverbial clauses 11.4 Clause chaining, medial clauses, and switch reference 11.5 Relative clauses 11.6 Coordination 12 Conclusions: the language in use 12.0 Discourse analysis and linguistic analysis 12.1 Continuity (cohesion) and discontinuity 12.2 Genres 12.3 Miscellaneous |
| Notes | Design UNA (Mark Diaper), Amsterdam University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom Printed in the United Kingdom by CPI Group Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY |
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