Converbs in Cross-linguistic Perspective

Converbs in Cross-linguistic Perspective
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Download or read book Converbs in Cross-linguistic Perspective written by Martin Haspelmath and published by De Gruyter Mouton. This book was released on 1995 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.


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