TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiltschko,Martina
ED  - Cambridge eBooks.
TI  - The universal structure of categories: towards a formal typology 
T2  - Cambridge studies in linguistics
SN  - 9781139833899 (ebook)
AV  - P161 .W58 2014
U1  - 415 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Categorial grammar
KW  - Structural linguistics
KW  - Language, Universal
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); The universal structure of categories -- A history of ideas behind the spine -- The universal spine as a heuristic for the identification of grammatical categories -- Anchoring categories in independent clauses -- Anchoring categories in dependent clauses -- Nominal anchoring categories -- Categories that introduce a point of view -- Towards a formal typology
N2  - Using data from a variety of languages such as Blackfoot, Halkomelem, and Upper Austrian German, this book explores a range of grammatical categories and constructions, including tense, aspect, subjunctive, case and demonstratives. It presents a new theory of grammatical categories - the Universal Spine Hypothesis - and reinforces generative notions of Universal Grammar while accommodating insights from linguistic typology. In essence, this new theory shows that language-specific categories are built from a small set of universal categories and language-specific units of language. Throughout the book the Universal Spine Hypothesis is compared to two alternative theories - the Universal Base Hypothesis and the No Base Hypothesis. This valuable addition to the field will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers in linguistics
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