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Title World atlas of language structures / Martin Haspelmath [and others]
MDA Scales differ
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 695 pages) : color illustrations, chiefly color maps
Series Oxford linguistics
Oxford linguistics.
Contents 11 Front Rounded Vowels12 Syllable Structure; 13 Tone; 14 Fixed Stress Locations; 15 Weight-Sensitive Stress; 16 Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems; 17 Rhythm Types; 18 Absence of Common Consonants; 19 Presence of Uncommon Consonants; 20 Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives; 21 Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives; 22 Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb; 23 Locus of Marking in the Clause; 24 Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases; 25 Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology; 26 Prefixing versus Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology; 27 Reduplication
28 Case Syncretism29 Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking; Gender and Number; Articles and Pronouns; Case; Numerals; 57 Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes; 58 Obligatory Possessive Inflection; 59 Possessive Classification; 60 Genitives, Adjectives, and Relative Clauses; 61 Adjectives without Nouns; 62 Action Nominal Constructions; 63 Noun Phrase Conjunction; 64 Nominal and Verbal Conjunction; Tense and Aspect; Modality; Suppletion; 81 Order of Subject, Object, and Verb; 82 Order of Subject and Verb; 83 Order of Object and Verb; 84 Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
85 Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase86 Order of Genitive and Noun; 87 Order of Adjective and Noun; 88 Order of Demonstrative and Noun; 89 Order of Numeral and Noun; 90 Order of Relative Clause and Noun; 91 Order of Degree Word and Adjective; 92 Position of Polar Question Particles; 93 Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions; 94 Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause; 95 Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase; 96 Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
97 Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun98-99 Alignment of Case Marking; 98 Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases; 99 Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns; 100 Alignment of Verbal Person Marking; 101 Expression of Pronominal Subjects; 102 Verbal Person Marking; 103 Third-Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking; 104 Order of Person Markers on the Verb; 105 Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'; Valence and Voice; Negation and Questions; Predication; 122-123 Relativization Strategies; 122 Relativization on Subjects
Summary CD-ROM contains an interactive electronic version of the database which allows users to zoom in on or customize maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Language and languages -- Maps
Comparative linguistics -- Maps
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology -- Maps
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Maps
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Comparative linguistics
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Language and languages
Talen.
Genre/Form Maps
Form Electronic book
Author Haspelmath, Martin, 1963-
ISBN 9780191531248
0191531243
9786611345839
6611345833
0199255911
9780199255917
1281345830
9781281345837
1435614151
9781435614154
Other Titles WALS