Canonical Morphology and Syntax

by Marina Chumakina, Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown

This is the first book to present Canonical Typology, a framework for comparing constructions and categories across languages. The canonical method takes the criteria used to define particular categories or phenomena (eg negation, finiteness, possession) to create a multidimensional space in which language-specific instances can be placed. In this way, the issue of fit becomes a matter of greater or lesser proximity to a canonical ideal. Drawing on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199604320
• ISBN13: 9780199604326
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"