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This volume offers a typology of reference systems across a range of typologically and genetically distinct languages. Zygmunt Frajzyngier describes and explains the differences between these systems across languages and explores their implications for syntactic theory and analysis and for linguistic typology.
Sommario
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The reference system of Mupun
- 3: The reference system of modern Mandarin Chinese
- 4: The reference system of Polish
- 5: The reference system in non-literary varieties of Russian
- 6: The reference system in Sino-Russian idiolects
- 7: The reference system of Pero
- 8: The reference system of Mina
- 9: The reference system of Gidar
- 10: The reference system of Hdi
- 11: The reference system of Wandala
- 12: The reference system of Lele
- 13: The reference system of English
- 14: Summary
- 15: Implications
- References
- Index
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Zygmunt Frajzyngier is Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder. His main research interests include the foundations of syntax and semantics from a cross-linguistic perspective, typological explanations in grammar, grammaticalization, and Chadic and Afroasiastic linguistics. His many books include The Afroasiastic Languages (co-edited with Erin Shay; CUP 2012), The Role of Functions in Syntax: A Unified Approach to Language Theory, Description, and Typology (with Erin Shay; Benjamins 2016), and The Emergence of Functions in Language (with Marielle Butters; OUP 2020).
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This volume offers a typology of reference systems across a range of typologically and genetically distinct languages. Zygmunt Frajzyngier describes and explains the differences between these systems across languages and explores their implications for syntactic theory and analysis and for linguistic typology.
