Nominalization in asian languages: diachronic and typological perspectives
Auteur :
Yap, Foong Ha
ISBN :
9789027206770
Date de publication :
15 juin 2011
Dimensions :
24,5 x 16,4 cm
Poids :
1630 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Bonaire, Saba
Brings together historical and crosslinguistic evidence from more than 20 different languages representing six different language families spanning the Asian continent and the Pacific and Indian oceans to elucidate the strategies and grammaticalization pathways that give rise to referential and non-referential uses of nominalization constructions.