David A. Peterson

Gebundenes Buch

Applicative Constructions

Beschreibung

This book presents the first systematic typological analysis of applicatives across African, American Indian, and East Asian languages. It is also the first to address their functions in discourse, the derivation of their semantic and syntactic properties, and how and why they have changed over time.

Autor

David A. Peterson is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Dartmouth College and works on Tibeto-Burman languages. He joined this institution after a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley (1999), followed by a postdoctoral research at the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, where he conducted research on Kuki-Chin languages (Bangladesh).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 192mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780199270927
• ISBN-10: 0199270929
• Artikelnr.: 22411779