Descriptive Typology and Linguistic Theory
Descriptive Typology and Linguistic Theory
- ISBN 13:
9781575864556
- ISBN 10:
157586455X
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 04/15/2011
- Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study
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Summary
This book broadens the scope of Eurasian language research, providing a cross-linguistic description and construction-based treatment of a neglected subtype of prenominal relative clause construction. Documenting these constructions contributes to a comprehensive taxonomy of relative clause types, while their particular properties present instructive challenges to linguistic theory. The authors develop a construction-based proposal using default multiple inheritance hierarchy architecture, arguing that these data contribute to the growing evidence for the need to posit constructions as explanatory concepts in grammatical theory.