Georgian Syntax: A Study in Relational Grammar (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 33) - Hardcover

Harris, Alice C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521235847 ISBN 13: 9780521235846

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1981

Synopsis

Georgian has sometimes been described as a language that is 'totally irregular', where the notions of 'subject', 'object' and 'indirect object' have no relevance. Although it is often cited in work on general linguistics, language universals and language typology, no systematic account of the syntax of this morphologically complex language has been available for Western linguists. Dr Harris's work fills this important need, and indeed her book provides one of the best and most thorough studies available in English of the syntax of a non-Indo-European language. Working in the framework of relational grammar - a framework that is attracting great interest - Dr Harris shows that Georgian does have constructions found in better-known languages, and the study of individual languages to the development of linguistic theory.

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Book Description

Georgian has sometimes been described as a language that is 'totally irregular', where the notions of 'subject', 'object' and 'indirect object' have no relevance. Although it is often cited in work on general linguistics, language universals and language typology, no systematic account of the syntax of this morphologically complex language has been available for Western linguists. Dr Harris's book provides one of the best and most thorough studies available in English of the syntax of a non-Indo-European language.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521235847
• ISBN 13: 9780521235846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348