The Typology of Semantic Alignment

The Typology of Semantic Alignment
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 483
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ISBN-10 : 9780191528781
ISBN-13 : 0191528781
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Book Synopsis The Typology of Semantic Alignment by : Mark Donohue

Download or read book The Typology of Semantic Alignment written by Mark Donohue and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semantic alignment refers to a type of language that has two means of morphosyntactically encoding the arguments of intransitive predicates, typically treating these as an agent or as a patient of a transitive predicate, or else by a means of a treatment that varies according to lexical aspect. This collection of new typological and case studies is the first book-length investigation of semantically aligned languages for three decades. Leading international typologists explore the differences and commonalities of languages with semantic alignment systems and compare the structure of these languages to languages without them. They look at how such systems arise or disappear and provide areal overviews of Eurasia, the Americas, and the south-west Pacific, the areas where semantically aligned languages are concentrated. This book will interest typological and historical linguists at graduate level and above.


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