Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: languages, major, world
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2009-01-28
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0415353394
ISBN-13: 9780415353397

This volume features over fifty of the world’s languages and language families. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language’s history and cultural role. This second edition has been updated and revised. Two new languages, Amharic and Javanese, have been included. This accessible volume will appeal to anyone with an interest in linguist

Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: languages, major, world
Number of Pages: 1040
Published: 1990-06-28
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0195065115
ISBN-13: 9780195065114

From English, French, Spanish and Russian to Pashto, Tagalog, and Swahili, this is the first comprehensive reference work to provide detailed information about the world’s forty major languages. Written by acknowledged specialists in the field, the volume begins with a general introduction to language and language families, followed by language-family sections that provide an informative essay about that language, and individual chapters that discuss the history, distribution, syntax, grammar an

Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: linguistics, textbooks, cambridge, tense
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1985-07-26
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521281385
ISBN-13: 9780521281386

Bernard Comrie defines tense as the grammaticalisation of location in time. In this textbook he introduces readers to the range of variation found in tense systems across the languages of the world, bringing together a rich collection of illustrative material that student and specialist alike will find invaluable. This systematic account of the data is carefully integrated with a theoretical discussion of tense that is sensitive both to the range of tense oppositions found cross-linguistically and also to the constraints on that variation. For the most part the book is written without formalis

Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: syntax, morphology, typology, linguistic, universals, language
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 1989-07-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226114333
ISBN-13: 9780226114330

Since its first publication, Language Universals and Linguistic Typology has become established as the leading introductory account of one of the most productive areas of linguistics—the analysis, comparison, and classification of the common features and forms of the organization of languages. Adopting an approach to the subject pioneered by Greenberg and others, Bernard Comrie is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case making, relative clauses, and causative constructions. His book is informed throughout by the conviction that an exe

Authors:Henk C. Van Riemsdijk, George Bosong, Bernard Comrie
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Keywords: language, typology, approaches, empirical, languages, europe, clitics
Number of Pages: 1026
Published: 1999-07
List price: $375.00
ISBN-10: 3110157519
ISBN-13: 9783110157512

This volume constitutes a substantial contribution to the grammar of clitics. It offers an extensive overview of the current state-of-the-art, presenting a broad variety of analytical and theoretical approaches to clitics.

Author: Bernard Comrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: aspect, cambridge, textbooks, linguistics, problems, related, introduction, study, verbal
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 1976-06-25
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521290457
ISBN-13: 9780521290456

An introduction to the general linguistic study of aspect. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect, the morphology and the semantics of aspect, and structuralist and philosophical approaches. Dr Comrie draws his examples particularly from English and the Slavonic and Romance languages, but also from Arabic, Chinese, Welsh, Greek and a variety of others. This is the first study of aspect, considered as a general linguistic phenomenon. It is intended for students of individual languages as well as for students of linguistics.

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