Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

ISBN-13: 9780521046053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 308 str.

R. M. W. Dixon; Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Opis

A distinguished international group of scholars analyze the concept of "word" and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse languages. The languages include Amazonian, Australian Aboriginal, Eskimo, Native North American, West African, Balkan, Caucasian and Indo-Pakistani Sign Language. They exhibit a great range of phonological, morphological and grammatical characteristics, enabling the contributors to refine the definition of a "word" against this broad linguistic landscape. The book is of interest to scholars of linguistic typology and of morphology.