Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field

This book is a guide for linguistic fieldworkers who wish to write a description of the morphology and syntax of one of the world's many underdocumented languages. It offers readers who work through it one possible outline for a grammatical description, with many questions designed to help them address the key topics. Appendices offer guidance on text and elicited data, and on sample reference grammars that readers might wish to consult. This will be a valuable resource to anyone engaged in linguistic fieldwork.

Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Demographic and ethnographic information
2. Morphological typology
3. Grammatical categories
4. Constituent order typology
5. Noun and noun-phrase operations
6. Predicate nominals and related constructions
7. Grammatical relations
8. Voice and valence adjusting operations
9. Other verb and veb-phrase operations
10. Pragmatically marked structures
11. Clause combinations
12. Conclusions: the language in use
Appendices
References
Index of languages, language families, and language areas
Subject index.

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Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for Field Linguists

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