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Canonical Morphology and Syntax, PDF eBook

Canonical Morphology and Syntax PDF

Edited by Dunstan Brown, Marina Chumakina, Greville G. Corbett

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This is the first book to present Canonical Typology, a framework for comparing constructions and categories across languages.

The canonical method takes the criteria used to define particular categories or phenomena (eg negation, finiteness, possession) to create a multidimensional space in which language-specific instances can be placed.

In this way, the issue of fit becomes a matter of greater or lesser proximity to a canonical ideal.

Drawing on the expertise ofworld class scholars in the field, the book addresses the issue of cross-linguistic comparability, illustrates the range of areas - from morphosyntactic features to reported speech - to which linguists are currently applying this methodology, and explores to what degree the approach succeeds indiscovering the elusive canon of linguistic phenomena.

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