Essays on Language Function and Language Type

Essays on Language Function and Language Type
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 485
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ISBN-10 : 9789027221681
ISBN-13 : 9027221685
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Book Synopsis Essays on Language Function and Language Type by : Joan L. Bybee

Download or read book Essays on Language Function and Language Type written by Joan L. Bybee and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their subject matter and in their theoretical orientation all the papers in this volume reflect the powerful influence of T. Givón. Most of them deal with questions of morphosyntactic typology, pragmatics, and grammaticalization theory. Many of them are directly based on extensive fieldwork on local languages of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Others are based on statistical analyses of extensive written and spoken corpora of texts.

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