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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785850903321

Autore

Ramat Paolo

Titolo

Linguistic typology [[electronic resource] /] / by Paolo Ramat ; [translated by A.P. Baldry]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1987

ISBN

3-11-085912-2

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Empirical approaches to language typology ; ; 1

Classificazione

ES 480

Altri autori (Persone)

BaldryA. P

Disciplina

400

Soggetti

Typology (Linguistics)

Language and languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Linguistica tipologica.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Part one -- Chapter one: The problems of linguistic typology -- Chapter two: Universals and typology -- Chapter three: The typological level. Predicates and arguments -- Chapter four: Crisis in formalism? Theory of grammar and empirical data -- Part two -- Chapter five: Towards a typology of Common Germanic -- Chapter six: The birth of new morphological categories: the case of the article and relative pronoun in Germanic languages -- Chapter seven: Towards a typology of Pompeian Latin -- Chapter eight: An example of reanalysis: periphrastic forms in the Romance languages' verb system -- Chapter nine: Sentence negation in Romance and Germanic -- Part three -- Chapter ten: The language typology of Wilhelm von Humboldt -- Bibliography -- Analytical Index -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Linguistic Typology.