Language in global perspective : papers in honor of the 50th anniversary of the summer Institute of Linguistics 1935-1985 /
Benjamin F. Elson, compilador y editor
- 1ra d.
- Dallas: The Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1986
- 626 p.: ilustraciones ; 19 cm.
Contiene : From optional to obligatory marking of syntactic relations --Area Norms of language size -- How many lenguages? -- SOVD Languages? -- Is the transitive/Intransitive dichotomy real? -- The lexo-centric approach to descriptive linguistics -- Passive Functions -- Computer-assisted tagmemics --SI and Philippine linguistics -- Inflectional suppletion in natural mosphology -- Devotional reafing and science fiction: the medieval saint´s life as a form of discourse -- Toward a discussion of the ordering of adjectivesin the english -- A further note on experimental clauses in discourse -- Feature of proto-otomanguean discourse structure? -- Indirec quote as the dominant style of reporting in Kom --Pergective mi in Uma discourse.