The Oxford handbook of linguistic typology / edited by Jae Jung Song.
"This book provides a critical state-of-the-art overview of work in linguistic typology. It examines the directions and challenges of current research and shows how these reflect and inform work on the development of linguistic theory. It describes what typologists have revealed about language...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Oxford handbooks in linguistics.
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| Summary: | "This book provides a critical state-of-the-art overview of work in linguistic typology. It examines the directions and challenges of current research and shows how these reflect and inform work on the development of linguistic theory. It describes what typologists have revealed about language in general and discovered (and continue to discover) about the richly various ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages." --From the publisher. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in hardback 2011. |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 754 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 666-727) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199658404 9780199658404 0199281254 9780199281251 |