| Object and Absolutive in Halkomelem Salish (Rle Linguistics F: World Linguistics) Contributor(s): Gerdts, Donna B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138994561 ISBN-13: 9781138994560 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Foreign Language Study | Native American Languages |
| Dewey: 497.3 |
| Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book treats aspects of the syntax of Halkomelem, a Salish language spoken in southwestern British Columbia, specifically those constructions which involve objects, and seeks to accomplish two goals. First, it provides natural language fodder for the debate concerning the nature of grammatical relations and their place in syntactic theory. Second, by showing that Halkomelem draws from a familiar class of universal constructions and organizes its syntax around some simple and common parameters, the author has brought the Salish languages, which due to their phonological and morphological complexity seemed particularly fearsome, into cross-linguistic perspective. |