Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 3, Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon

This three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world''s languages. Clearly organized and broad-ranging, it covers topics such as parts-of-speech, passives, complementation, relative clauses, adverbial clauses, inflectional morphology, tense, aspect, mood, and diexis. The contributors look at the major ways that these...