Object and Absolutive in Halkomelem Salish (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics) - Softcover

Gerdts, Donna B.

 
9781138994560: Object and Absolutive in Halkomelem Salish (Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics)
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ISBN 10: 1138994561 ISBN 13: 9781138994560
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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Donna B. Gerdts

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138994561
ISBN 13 
9781138994560
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
296

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