'Varieties of Modern English' gives readers the tools needed to understand the diversity of the English language and the issues surrounding it.
This monograph examines the different verbal categories of tense, aspect and mood and then establishes a typology of languages based upon their representation of these categories. The author argues that natural languages exemplify the language type by assigning prominence to jus…
by Lord, Carol
fromTypological studies in language
Presents a comprehensive survey of historically attested relative clause constructions from a diachronic typological perspective. This title demonstrates how typology and historical linguistics can each benefit from attention to the other.
Offers an introduction to linguistic typology that covers various linguistic domains from phonology and morphology over parts-of-speech, the NP and the VP, to simple and complex clauses, pragmatics and language change. This title also includes a discussion on methodological issu…
by Comrie, Bernard, Polinsky, Maria
fromStudies in language companion series
