| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) |
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Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 70 |
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Typological studies in language ; v. 70. 0167-7373
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| Contents |
Deixis and Alignment; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Foreword; List of abbreviations; Introduction; I. Alignment and direction; II. A theory of direction; III. Algonquian languages; IV. Kutenai; V. Sahaptian languages; VI. Kiowa-Tanoan languages; VII. Mapudungun; VIII. Conclusions; Appendix 1: Algonquian paradigms; Appendix 2: Analysis of Kiowa personal prefixes; Appendix 3: Optimality-theoretic syntax of inverses; References; Language index; Author index; Subject index; The series Typological Studies in Language |
| Summary |
This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into account, but it also relates the opposition between direct and inverse verbs and clauses to an opposition between deictic values, thereby achieving two advantageous goals: it meaningfully circumvents one of the usual analytic dilemmas, namely whether a given construction is passive or inverse, and it |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-300) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Languages -- Deixis
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Indians of North America -- Languages -- Grammar
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Indians of North America -- Languages -- Grammar
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Direction in language
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Deixis
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Indians -- Languages
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Deixis
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Deixis.
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Grammaticale functie.
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Indianentalen.
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Indianersprachen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789027293046 |
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902729304X |
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