Kaoru Kiyosawa, Donna Gerdts

Salish Applicatives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive view of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicative constructions in Salish, a language family of northwestern North America. The historical development and discourse function of applicatives are elucidated and placed in typological perspective.

Produktdetails

• Brill's Studies in the Indigen Nr.1
• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789004183933
• ISBN-10: 9004183930
• Artikelnr.: 28437701

Autorenporträt

Kaoru Kiyosawa, Ph.D. (2007) in Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, has worked intensively on the comparative study in Salish languages. Her research includes the morphosyntactic analysis of verbal afffixes such as object agreement and transitive inflection. Donna B. Gerdts, Ph.D. (1982) in Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, is Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. She has published extensively on the morphology, syntax, and semantics of Halkomelem Salish, based on over thirty years of fieldwork with elders in British Columbia.