Language Typology And Syntactic Description

This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the worldâ??s languages. The contributors provide informative sketches of these structures at work in a diverse range of languages from all over the world. Although the volumes can be read independently, together they provide an indispensable reference work for all linguists and fieldworkers interested in cross-linguistic generalizations. Most of the chapters in the second edition are substantially revised or completely new - some on topics not covered by the first edition.