Martina Wiltschko (Vancouver University of British Columbia)

The Universal Structure of Categories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using data from a variety of languages, this book explores a range of grammatical categories and constructions, including tense, aspect, subjunctive, case and demonstratives. It presents a new theory of grammatical categories - the Universal Spine Hypothesis - and reinforces generative notions of Universal Grammar while accommodating insights from linguistic typology.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9781009342452
• ISBN-10: 1009342452
• Artikelnr.: 66143597

Autorenporträt

Martina Wiltschko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The universal structure of categories
2. A history of ideas behind the spine
3. The universal spine as a heuristic for the identification of grammatical categories
4. Anchoring categories in independent clauses
5. Anchoring categories in dependent clauses
6. Nominal anchoring categories
7. Categories that introduce a point of view
8. Towards a formal typology.