Number

Klappentext This 2000 book provides an introduction to the grammatical category of number surveying many of the world's languages. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 2000! provides an introduction to the grammatical category of number! surveying many languages to reveal that the world's linguistic resources are richer than even many linguists realise. Aimed at linguistic students! it is the first book-length treatment of this topic and can serve as an entry to linguistic typology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Introduction; 2. Meaning distinctions; 3. Items involved in the Nominal Number System; 4. Integrating number values and the Animacy Hierarchy; 5. The expression of number; 6. The syntax of number; 7. Other uses of number; 8. Verbal number; 9. Conclusion and new challenges.

Product details

• Authors: Greville Corbett, Greville G. Corbett, Greville G. (University of Surrey) Corbett
• Assisted by: S. R. Anderson (Editor), J. Bresnan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2000
• EAN: 9780521640169
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64016-9
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; Cambridge Textbooks in Linguis
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures