Meaning and Grammar: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] Book 10)

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. Preface Contributors Part I. General considerations Reflections on the history of the study of universals: the example of the partes orationis Universals, explanations and pragmatics Isomorphic, anisomorphic, and heteromorphic universals Part II. Syntactic categories and constructions Towards a typology of voice Non-verbal predicability Impersonal constructions as a strategy for second-order predication Polarization as a universal of linguistic organization Towards a semantic typology of language A hierarchy of main predicate encoding On explaining double object constructions “Nouny” and “verby” adjectivals: a typology of predicative adjectival constructions Part III. Morphemes and lexical items Demonstratives and the localist hypothesis Phraseological universals: theoretical and applied aspects Scopal quantifiers: some universals of lexical effability Semantic integrality: a universal semiotic feature of language and perception Foreground and background: Weinrich against Labov Lexical universals and universals of grammar Author index Language index Subject index This dialectic relationship of unity and diversity is fundamental for the linguistic sciences and for the philosophy of language. Edited By Michel Kefer, Johan Van Der Auwera. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.