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      The Typology of Semantic Alignment

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          Semantic alignment refers to a type of language that has two means of morphosyntactically encoding the arguments of intransitive predicates, typically treating these as an agent or as a patient of a transitive predicate, or else by a means of a treatment that varies according to lexical aspect. This book presents a collection of new typological examinations and case studies. International typologists explore the differences and commonalities of languages with semantic alignment systems and compare the structure of these languages to languages without them. They look at how such systems arise or disappear and provide areal overviews of Eurasia, the Americas, and the south-west Pacific — the areas where semantically aligned languages are concentrated.

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          0199238383
          9780199238385
          9780191716768
          January 24 2008
          January 01 2009
          10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199238385.001.0001
          5821e613-4470-40ae-8c27-5aa0adb8b9e7
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