| Typology and Universals Revised Edition Contributor(s): Croft, William (Author), Anderson, S. R. (Editor), Bresnan, J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521808847 ISBN-13: 9780521808842 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $159.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 410.1 |
| LCCN: 2002019247 |
| Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 9" (1.56 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The second edition of this essential textbook has been thoroughly rewritten and updated to reflect advances in typology and universals over the past decade. It reviews new methodologies such as the semantic map model and questions of syntactic argumentation; discussion of current debates over explanations for specific classes of universals; and comparison of the typological and generative approaches to language. |
Contributor Bio(s): Croft, William: - William Croft is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester. His books include Studies in Typology and Diachrony for Joseph H. Greenberg (edited with Keith Denning and Suzanne Kemmer, 1990), Typology and Universals (Cambridge, 1990), Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations: the Cognitive Organization of Information (1991), Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach (2000), and Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in Typological Perspective (2001). |