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Possible and probable languages : a generative perspective on linguistic typology / Frederick J. Newmeyer.
LIBRA P204 .N49 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newmeyer, Frederick J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Generative grammar.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Functionalism (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- x, 278 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- In this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer seeks to explain the variety of languages. He combines the leading ideas of the functionalist and formalist approaches to linguistic typology, advocating principles of Universal Grammar to explain why some language types are impossible, and functional principles to explain why some grammatical features are more common than others.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199274347
- 0199274339
- OCLC:
- 60776787
- Publisher Number:
- 9780199274338 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780199274345 (paperback : alk. paper)
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