The Typology of Semantic Alignment (Hardcover)

Semantic alignment refers to a type of language that has two means of morphosyntactically encoding the arguments of intransitive predicates, typically treating these as an agent or as a patient of a transitive predicate, or else by a means of a treatment that varies according to lexical aspect. This collection of new typological and case studies is the first book-length investigation of semantically aligned languages for three decades. Leading international typologists explore the differences and commonalities of languages with semantic alignment systems and compare the structure of these languages to languages without them. They look at how such systems arise or disappear and provide areal overviews of Eurasia, the Americas, and the south-west Pacific, the areas where semantically aligned languages are concentrated. This book will interest typological and historical linguists at graduate level and above.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2008
First published:	February 2008
Editors:	Mark Donohue • Soren Wichmann
Dimensions:	241 x 163 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	488
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-923838-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	0-19-923838-3
Barcode:	9780199238385

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