Language Typology and Syntactic Description

This unique three-volume survey brings together a team of leading scholars to explore the syntactic and morphological structures of the world's languages. Clear and broad-ranging it covers topics such as parts-of-speech passives complementation relative clauses adverbial clauses inflectional morphology tense aspect mood and deixis. The contributors look at the major ways that these notions are realized and provide informative sketches of them at work in a range of languages. Volume 1 covers the parts-of-speech systems word order noun phrases clause types speech act distinctions passives and information packaging in the clause.