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  • Sari: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Aug-2022
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1107474612
  • ISBN-13: 9781107474611
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 726 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 245x168x38 mm, kaal: 1250 g
  • Sari: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
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  • ISBN-10: 1107474612
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Taking a functional approach, this textbook provides a thorough overview of Morphosyntax, and research on variation and universals in grammatical constructions across the world's languages. It is organized by the functions of grammatical constructions, making it an essential resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics.

Bringing together the results of sixty years of research in typology and universals, this textbook presents a comprehensive survey of Morphosyntax - the combined study of syntax and morphology. Languages employ extremely diverse morphosyntactic strategies for expressing functions, and Croft provides a comprehensive functional framework to account for the full range of these constructions in the world's languages. The book explains analytical concepts that serve as a basis for cross-linguistic comparison, and provides a rich source of descriptive data that can be analysed within a range of theories. The functional framework is useful to linguists documenting endangered languages, and those writing reference grammars and other descriptive materials. Each technical term is comprehensively explained, and cross-referenced to related terms, at the end of each chapter and in an online glossary. This is an essential resource on Morphosyntax for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and linguistic fieldworkers.

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Taking a functional approach, this book provides a thorough overview of Morphosyntax, and sets out a framework for syntactic constructions.
List of Figures
xix
List of Tables
xxi
Preface xxv
Acknowledgments xxvii
A Note on Teaching Morphosyntax xxix
A Note on Language Examples xxxi
List of Abbreviations
xxxiii
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Grammatical Constructions, Semantic Classes, and Information Packaging
3(29)
1.1 What Is Morphosyntax?
3(3)
1.2 Why Constructions?
6(6)
1.2.1 Word Classes and Semantic Classes
6(2)
1.2.2 Word Classes and Constructions
8(4)
1.2.3 Constructions and the Organization of this Textbook
12(1)
1.3 Why Information Packaging?
12(4)
1.4 How Do We Compare Constructions within and across Languages?
16(6)
1.5 How Do We Analyze the Structure of Sentences in a Particular Language?
22(6)
1.6 Appendix - Interpreting Language Examples: Interlinear Morpheme Translations
28(4)
2 Propositional Act Constructions: The Skeleton of a Sentence
32(33)
2.1 Propositional Acts: Semantic Classes and Information Packaging
32(3)
2.2 The Major Propositional Act Constructions and their Structure
35(13)
2.2.1 Anatomy of a Construction: Wholes and Parts, and Heads and Dependents
35(2)
2.2.2 Types of Constructions: Phrases and Clauses
37(2)
2.2.3 Noun, Verb, and Adjective as Comparative Concepts: Prototypical Constructions
39(5)
2.2.4 More on the Structure of Propositional Act Constructions
44(2)
2.2.5 Nonprototypical Propositional Act Constructions
46(2)
2.3 Three Principles of the Mapping between Form and Function
48(5)
2.4 Recruitment Strategies for Nonprototypical Constructions
53(5)
2.5 Two Crosslinguistic Universals of Grammatical Strategies
58(7)
PART II ARGUMENT PHRASE STRUCTURE: REFERENCE AND MODIFICATION
3 Reference and Referent Expressions
65(38)
3.1 The Semantics of Referring Phrases: Reference and Referents
65(7)
3.1.1 Semantics of Reference
66(3)
3.1.2 Semantic Categories of Nouns and the (Extended) Animacy Hierarchy
69(1)
3.1.3 Combined Means of Reference, and the Ontological Categories
70(2)
3.2 The Information Status of Referring Phrases: Pronouns and Articles
72(4)
3.3 Information Status: Identity Known to Speaker and Hearer
76(11)
3.3.1 Accessibility and the Accessibility Scale
77(4)
3.3.2 Referring Phrase Constructions at the Upper End of the Accessibility Scale
81(2)
3.3.3 The Grammaticalization of Definite Constructions from Demonstrative Constructions
83(4)
3.4 Information Status: Real Referents, but Unknown Identity
87(8)
3.4.1 Pragmatic Specificity and the Theater Metaphor for Referents
88(2)
3.4.2 Typology and Grammaticalization Paths of Referents: From Anaphoric to Nonspecific
90(5)
3.5 Nonreal Referents: Indefinite Pronouns/Articles and the Semantic Map Model
95(5)
3.6 Generic Reference
100(3)
4 Modification: Semantic Types and Morphosyntactic Strategies
103(37)
4.1 Information Packaging and Semantics of Modifiers
103(11)
4.1.1 The Information Packaging Function of Modification
104(1)
4.1.2 Property Concepts and Scalar Admodifiers: Sorting Referents into (Sub)Types
105(4)
4.1.3 Numerals, Quantifiers, and Set-Member Modifiers: Selecting a Referent
109(2)
4.1.4 Nominal (Object) Modification Constructions: Situating a Referent
111(2)
4.1.5 Action Modification
113(1)
4.2 Simple Encoding Strategies, and Word Order
114(3)
4.3 Relational Encoding Strategies: Flags
117(3)
4.4 Indexical Encoding Strategies
120(15)
4.4.1 Person Indexation
121(3)
4.4.2 Nonperson Indexation
124(2)
4.4.3 The Classifier Strategy
126(4)
4.4.4 Mismatches in Indexation Features and the Agreement Hierarchy
130(5)
4.5 The Linker Encoding Strategy, and a Summary of Morphosyntactic Encoding Strategies
135(5)
5 The Structure and Origin of Modification Constructions
140(31)
5.1 Introduction
140(1)
5.2 The Modification-Reference Continuum
140(15)
5.2.1 Anchoring and Non-Anchoring Nominal Modification Constructions
140(4)
5.2.2 Mensural and Quantifying Constructions
144(5)
5.2.3 Inalienability Revisited
149(4)
5.2.4 The Modification-Reference Continuum: Summary
153(2)
5.3 Word Order and the Structure of Referring Expressions
155(4)
5.4 Anaphoric-Head Constructions, Apposition, and the Origin of Referring Expressions
159(12)
PART III CLAUSE STRUCTURE: PREDICATION AND ARGUMENTS
6 Event Structure and Argument Coding: Semantics, Transitivity, and Alignment
171(35)
6.1 Semantics and Information Packaging in the Clause
171(12)
6.1.1 Predication and Arguments, and Events and Participants
171(5)
6.1.2 How Many Participants? How Are They Expressed?
176(7)
6.2 The Transitive Construction and the Prototypical Bivalent Event
183(9)
6.2.1 The Transitive Construction as a Prototype Construction
183(3)
6.2.2 Basic Argument Structure Encoding Strategies, including Basic Word Order
186(6)
6.3 The Intransitive Construction, Monovalent Events, and Alignment Strategies
192(14)
6.3.1 The Basic Alignment Strategies
192(3)
6.3.2 `Subject' and `Object' as Comparative Concepts?
195(2)
6.3.3 Active/Inactive Alignment, and S as a Comparative Concept
197(4)
6.3.4 Causativity
201(5)
7 Event Structure and Nonprototypical Argument Coding
206(39)
7.1 Introduction
206(1)
7.2 Reflexives/Reciprocals/Middles: Between Monovalent and Bivalent Events
206(7)
7.3 Lower Transitivity: Less Prototypical Bivalent Events
213(13)
7.3.1 Motion Events and the Talmy Typology
214(2)
7.3.2 Contact and Material Verbs: Manner vs. Result Verbs
216(5)
7.3.3 Other Less Prototypical Bivalent Events, and the Transitivity Hierarchy
221(5)
7.4 Experiential Events: Perception, Cognition, Emotion, Sensation - and also Ingestion
226(8)
7.5 The Ditransitive Construction: Trivalent Events, and Possession
234(8)
7.5.1 Defining Ditransitive Argument Structure Constructions and Trivalent Events
234(2)
7.5.2 Major Alignment Strategies for Ditransitive Constructions
236(3)
7.5.3 The Indirect Object - Possessive Continuum
239(3)
7.6 Appendix: Summary of Event Semantic Classes
242(3)
8 Argument Coding and Voice: Discourse Factors
245(27)
8.1 Discourse and Frequency Factors in Voice Choice
245(5)
8.1.1 The Basic Voice Construction and Nonbasic Voice Constructions
245(3)
8.1.2 Discourse Motivation for Ergative and Accusative Alignment, and Preferred Argument Structure
248(2)
8.2 Information Packaging Strategies for Nonbasic Voice Constructions
250(2)
8.3 Passive-Inverse Constructions: Constructions for More Salient Ps
252(11)
8.4 Antipassive Constructions: Constructions for Less Salient Ps (including Noun Incorporation)
263(9)
9 Argument Coding and Voice: Salience of Peripheral Participants
272(17)
9.1 The Expression of Obliques as Core Argument Phrases
272(1)
9.2 Causative Constructions: Strategies and Functional Subtypes
273(7)
9.3 Applicative Constructions
280(7)
9.4 A Hierarchy of Overt Coding in Voice Constructions
287(2)
10 Nonprototypical Predication and Nonpredicational Clauses
289(36)
10.1 Introduction
289(5)
10.1.1 Nonprototypical ("Nonverbal") Predication
289(1)
10.1.2 Predication and Nonpredicational Information Packaging in Clauses
290(4)
10.2 Strategies for Prototypical and Nonprototypical Predication
294(4)
10.3 Object Predication and Property Predication
298(6)
10.4 Location and Possession Clausal Constructions: Predicational and Presentational
304(21)
10.4.1 Location Clauses
304(1)
10.4.2 Possession Clauses
305(12)
10.4.3 Strategies for Presentational Constructions
317(8)
11 Information Packaging in Clauses
325(35)
11.1 Introduction
325(2)
11.2 Topic-Comment Constructions
327(9)
11.2.1 Function of Topic-Comment Constructions, and the Problem of Multiple Referents
327(2)
11.2.2 Strategies for Topics that Are Not the Most Central Participant
329(3)
11.2.3 Nonparticipant (Hanging) Topic Phrases
332(4)
11.3 Thetic Constructions
336(11)
11.3.1 Function of Thetic Constructions, and Contexts Typically Construed as Thetic
336(3)
11.3.2 Strategies for Thetic Constructions
339(5)
11.3.3 Weather Constructions as Thetics
344(3)
11.4 Identificational Constructions
347(11)
11.4.1 The Function of Identificational Constructions, and Contexts Typically Construed as Identificational
347(6)
11.4.2 Strategies for Identificational Constructions
353(5)
11.5 Summary
358(2)
12 Speech Act Constructions
360(37)
12.1 Introduction: Speech Act Constructions and Their Relation to Modality, Polarity, and Information Packaging
360(5)
12.2 Polarity: Negation of Declaratives
365(3)
12.3 Interrogative Constructions
368(10)
12.3.1 Functional Types of Questions
369(1)
12.3.2 Strategies for Interrogative Constructions
370(2)
12.3.3 Strategies for Response Constructions
372(3)
12.3.4 Identificational Constructions, the Expression of (Un (Certainty, and Their Relation to Interrogative Constructions
375(3)
12.4 Imperative-Hortative Constructions
378(11)
12.4.1 Person, Politeness, and Prohibitives
380(5)
12.4.2 The Relation of Deontic Modality and Predication to Imperative-Hortative Constructions
385(4)
12.5 Exclamative Constructions
389(8)
12.5.1 Function and Strategies for the Exclamative Construction
389(2)
12.5.2 The Relation of Mirativity and Thetic Constructions to Exclamative Constructions
391(6)
13 Eventive Complex Predicates and Related Constructions
397(35)
13.1 Introduction
397(4)
13.1.1 Complex Predicates and Information Packaging
397(2)
13.1.2 Semantics and Evolution of Complex Predicates
399(2)
13.2 Eventive Complex Predicate Constructions
401(11)
13.2.1 Semantics of Eventive Complex Predicates: One Event or Two?
401(4)
13.2.2 Strategies for Eventive Complex Predicates: Serial Verbs and Related Strategies
405(7)
13.3 Grammaticalization and Lexicalization of Eventive Complex Predicates
412(2)
13.3.1 Grammaticalization into Argument Structure Constructions and Voice
412(1)
13.3.2 Lexicalization of Eventive Complex Predicates
413(1)
13.4 Grammaticalization of TAMP: Auxiliary Constructions
414(5)
13.5 Support Verb Constructions: Between Grammaticalization and Lexicalization
419(5)
13.6 Argument Complex Predicate Constructions: Verb + Argument "Idioms"
424(5)
13.7 Summary
429(3)
14 Stative Complex Predicates, including Manner
432(29)
14.1 Stative Complex Predicates: Semantics
432(3)
14.2 Strategies for Stative Complex Predicates
435(8)
14.3 Stative Complex Predicates and the Modification-Predication Continuum
443(5)
14.4 Ideophones and Stative Complex Predicates, and `Manner' Revisited
448(3)
14.5 Motion Events as Complex Predicates: The Talmy Typology Revisited
451(10)
PART IV COMPLEX SENTENCES
15 Temporal and Causal Relations between Events: Coordinate Clause and Adverbial Clause Constructions
461(32)
15.1 Complex Sentence Constructions
461(8)
15.1.1 Discourse and Complex Sentences
461(2)
15.1.2 Complex Sentences and the Main-Subordinate Clause Distinction
463(2)
15.1.3 The Information Packaging of Coordinate vs. Adverbial Clause Constructions: A Gestalt Analysis
465(4)
15.2 Coordinate Clause Constructions and Coordination in General
469(12)
15.2.1 Functional Characterization
469(4)
15.2.2 Strategies: Coordinators and Related Forms
473(3)
15.2.3 Strategies: Balancing vs. Deranking
476(5)
15.3 Adverbial Clause Constructions
481(5)
15.3.1 Functional Characterization
481(3)
15.3.2 Strategies: Balancing vs. Deranking, and Action Nominals vs. Converbs
484(2)
15.4 Adverbial Clause Constructions, Coordinate Clause Constructions, and the Source of Conjunctions
486(7)
16 Reference Tracking in Coordinate and Adverbial Clause Constructions
493(20)
16.1 Introduction: Reference Tracking Systems
493(2)
16.2 Balanced Reference Tracking Systems
495(3)
16.3 Deranked Reference Tracking Systems
498(2)
16.4 Switch-Reference Systems
500(6)
16.5 Zero Expression of Arguments and the Predicate in Coordinate Constructions
506(7)
17 Other Semantic Relations between Events: Comparative, Conditional, and Concessive
513(37)
17.1 Introduction
513(1)
17.2 Comparatives and Equatives
513(15)
17.2.1 Semantics and Information Packaging of the Comparative Construction
513(1)
17.2.2 Strategies for Comparative Constructions
514(2)
17.2.3 Universals and Explanations for Comparative Strategies
516(6)
17.2.4 Equative Constructions
522(6)
17.3 Conditionals, Concessives, and Concessive Conditionals
528(16)
17.3.1 Conditional Constructions
528(8)
17.3.2 Concessive Constructions
536(3)
17.3.3 Concessive Conditional Constructions
539(5)
17.4 More Complex Constructions
544(2)
17.4.1 Comparative Conditionals
545(1)
17.4.2 The Let Alone Construction
545(1)
17.5 The Formal Expression of Semantic and Pragmatic Relationships between Events Expressed in Complex Sentences
546(4)
18 Events as Arguments: Complement Clause Constructions
550(36)
18.1 Introduction: Events as Arguments (Complement Clauses) and Events as Modifiers (Relative Clauses)
550(1)
18.2 The Semantics of Complement Clauses
551(9)
18.2.1 Introduction
551(1)
18.2.2 Semantic Types of Complement-Taking Predicates
552(8)
18.3 Strategies for Complement Clause Constructions
560(12)
18.3.1 Balancing and Deranking Strategies, and the Binding Hierarchy
560(6)
18.3.2 How to Avoid Complements, and How to Create Them
566(6)
18.4 Argument Structure and Reference Tracking in Complement Clause Constructions
572(14)
18.4.1 The Gradual Unification of Argument Structure in Complement Clause Constructions
572(8)
18.4.2 Reference Tracking in Complement Constructions: Logophoric Systems
580(6)
19 Events as Modifiers: Relative Clause Constructions
586(30)
19.1 The Semantics and Information Packaging of Relative Clause Constructions
586(1)
19.2 Strategies for Relative Clause Constructions
587(16)
19.2.1 Balancing and Deranking
587(1)
19.2.2 Expression of the Shared Participant: The Externally Headed Strategy
588(4)
19.2.3 Expression of the Shared Participant: Internally Headed, Adjoined, and Related Strategies
592(6)
19.2.4 Noun Modifying Clause Constructions as a Relative Clause Strategy
598(5)
19.3 The Semantic Role(s) of the Shared Participant and the Accessibility Hierarchy
603(9)
19.4 Anaphoric-Head Relative Clauses and the Origin of Externally Headed Relative Clauses
612(4)
Epilogue 616(1)
References 617(43)
Glossary of Terms (online) Author Index 660(8)
Language Index 668(6)
Subject Index 674
William Croft is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of dozens of articles and nine books, including Typology and Universals, Radical Construction Grammar, Explaining Language Change, Cognitive Linguistics (with Alan Cruse), Verbs and Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology.