Author: Greville G. Corbett
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: number
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0521649706
ISBN-13: 9780521649704

Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple yet distinctions in number (as in cat versus cats ) vary considerably from language to language. Some languages, for instance, make more distinctions than English, having three, four or even five different values. This book draws on examples from many languages to analyze the possibilities and reveals that the world’s linguistic resources are richer than even many linguists realize. It is intended for linguistic students and teachers and is an ideal entry to linguistic typology.Book DescriptionNumbe

Author: Greville G. Corbett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: linguistics, textbooks, cambridge, gender
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1991-04-26
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 052133845X
ISBN-13: 9780521338455

Gender is a fascinating category, central and pervasive in some languages and totally absent in others. In this new, overall account of gender systems, over 200 languages are discussed, from English and Russian to Archi and Chichewa. More detailed analysis of individual languages provides clear illustrations of specific types of systems. Gender distinction is often based on sex; sometimes this is only one criterion and the gender of nouns depends on other factors (thus "house" is masculine in Russian, feminine in French and neuter in Tamil). On occasion there are equivalent distinctions such

Authors:Anna Kibort, Greville G. Corbett,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: linguistics, notion, key, perspectives, features
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-09-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0199577749
ISBN-13: 9780199577743

This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language. Features are fundamental components of linguistic description: they include gender (feminine, masculine, neuter); number (singular, plural, dual); person (1st, 2nd, 3rd); tense (present, past, future); and case (nominative, accusative, genitive, ergative). Despite their ubiquity and centrality in linguistic description, much remains to be discovered about them: there is, for example, no readily available inventory showing which featur

Authors:Greville G. Corbett, Michael Noonan,
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: studies, comrie, typological, language, bernard, honor, grammatical, relations, case
Number of Pages: 299
Published: 2008-12-19
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 9027229945
ISBN-13: 9789027229946

Authors:Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, studies, linguistics, syncretism, study, morphology, interface, syntax
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-10-31
List price: $116.00
ISBN-10: 0521821819
ISBN-13: 9780521821810

Syncretism--where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions--is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. It results from a ’mismatch’, whereby the syntax of a language makes a particular distinction, but the morphology does not. This pioneering book provides the first full-length study of inflectional syncretism, presenting a typology of its occurrence across a wide range of languages. It will be welcomed by linguists interested in the relation between words and the larger units of which they are a part.

Authors:Greville Rumble, Greville Rumble, Anthony A. Kaye,
Publisher: Law Book Co of Australasia
Keywords: education, higher, teaching, distance
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1980-12-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0709904681
ISBN-13: 9780709904687

Authors:Mary Corbett, Sheila Corbett Kihne,
Publisher: Adams Media
Keywords: days, marry, going, ways, list
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1593374003
ISBN-13: 9781593374006

You are a wonderful woman (everybody says so!) and you want to get married. But six months, a year, more years go by and you still aren’t married. What’s the problem? The problem is that you have wasted time on the wrong men. And when you are with the wrong man, you aren’t available to meet the right man. Men who aren’t interested in marriage can easily trick you into thinking that they are. The List identifies subtle red flag behavior immediately so you won’t be fooled again. For example, did you know that: A man who takes you out for a last minute coffee d